If you teach your son to love money well, you will have such success that he will soon love it better than he does you. * * * * * A miser has merry mourners. * * * * * Youth saves for age, age for its heirs, and these for nobody. * * * * * Do not starve your horse to save your hay. * * * * * When you deliver a eulogy on a plutocrat, you had better dwell on his millions than on his methods of getting them. III. _The Pleasures we may Derive from our Senses._ The odious doctrine of the ascetics has been that whatever is agreeable to man is offensive to God; and that to cultivate the pleasurable sensations is to prepare one’s self for perdition. Far more sane than they was that Mohammedan teacher quoted by Gibbon, who, when asked to describe the true believers, replied,――“_They_ are the elect of God, whose lives are devoted to the improvement of their own natural faculties.” As mistaken as the ascetics, are those wooden-souled disciplinarians who maintain that we should not look for recreation in our daily work, but put off the thoughts of it to holidays and vacations. These are but one degree better than those hypocrites who will tell you that benevolence should have no place in business, and who will offer you a round sum for a public charity, while they squeeze the salaries of their shop-girls down to the lowest quarter-of-a-dollar. Down with such imposters! Each hour of our lives is the best hour for enjoying ourselves and for providing others the means of enjoyment; and there is no better way to accomplish both these objects than that suggested by the pious Arab,――“The improvement of our own natural faculties.” These have been divided by experts in such matters into three classes,――the Sensations, the Emotions, and the Intellect. I shall consider the training of each with reference to the special pleasures it can furnish. All are equally worth cultivating. The delights of one are not lower than those of another, if accepted in the proper spirit. He who has right self-culture will derive gratification from them all; and will not be, like the French peasant in Halevy’s story, unable to understand how heaven could be attractive unless his native village were transported there. Some general rules must be respected if the exercise of any of our faculties is to yield the maximum of pleasure. These rules are derived from the physiology of the nervous system; for it cannot be doubted that this underlies, if it is not identical with, every feeling and function of the mind.