Live within your income. Always have something saved at the end of the year. Let your imports be more than your exports, and you'll never go far wrong. --_Dr. Johnson._ 971 All men are not susceptible to improvement. 972 It is better to have nothing to do than to be doing nothing. --_Attilus._ 973 Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are the same follies. --_Fontenelle._ 974 What madness to carry all one's income on one's back. 975 Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. --_Colton._ 976 _Fickleness._--Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro, as this Mr. ---- ----? --_Shakespeare._ 977 Mankind is made up of inconsistencies. 978 BEGIN IT. Lose this day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory; True indecision brings its own delays. And days are lost, lamenting over days. Are you in earnest? Seize the very minute; What you can do, or think you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only begin it and the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.-- --_Goethe._ 979 I hate dependence on another's will, Which changes with the breath of ev'ry whisper, Just as the sky and weather with the winds: With the winds, as they blow east or west, To make his temper pleasant or unpleasant. --_Crown._ 980 INDEPENDENCE--CHECKED. If any man can do without the world, it is certain the world can do quite as well without him. --_Hazlitt._ 981 Living to-day on tomorrow's salary is a sure sign of financial indigestion. 982 Seek not every quality in one individual. 983 That is the best gown that goes most up and down the house. 984 THE INEVITABLE. I like the man who faces what he must, With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear; Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust That God is God, that somehow, true and just, His plans work out for mortals; not a tear Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear, Falls from his grasp; better with love a crust Than living in dishonor; envies not, Nor loses faith in man; but does his best, Nor murmurs at his humble lot; But with a smile and words of hope, give zest To every toiler. He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.