The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
Quoting Mr. Schwab in a newspaper article the Reverend Frank Crane said, "And, Mr. Schwab might have added, neither is there place for the spendthrift, be he rich or poor." The practice of thrift during the last few years has been confined largely to the well-to-do and the rich. Those people who have all their lives been denied many things which they greatly desired have, in this era of easy money, attempted to satisfy all these lifelong desires. They have plunged and recklessly spent their incomes and have acquired the things which they have so long wanted and have frequently been disappointed with the result. Many small apartments and small homes are so filled with ornate furniture, musical instruments and bric-a-brac that there is little room left for the family. Every member of the family has satisfied a desire for something and now half of the things are useless or in the way. "No man needs money as much as he who despises it."--Richter.
CHAPTER XXIII "Experience don't make a man so bold as it duz so careful."----- Josh Billings. ALL of us come into this world naked babies --equal in having nothing. If all the babies born today were laid in a row, they would all be alike in the worldly possessions they brought with them. The child of a Vanderbilt has no more goods and baggage than the child of a beggar. To the one, riches are given immediately and to the other, a strip of calico; but these things are thrust upon the child by grown-up persons who have acquired the riches or the calico. Whether the one infant will have wealth all through its youth and manhood and old age, and the other go through life in poverty whether when the hour comes for their souls to depart, the one will breathe his last in a marble mansion, and the other lying in the dust--all this depends upon the way each of them heeds the following bit of philosophy: "Man's necessities are few, but his wants are endless."
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The Secret Of Wealth