The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
Compare the way a brick mason right here in this city lives, with the way a man doing the same work lived fifty years ago--and compare him with a hundred years before. If you look into his bank account, you will find he has more actual cash than many princes had a century or two ago. The average woman places more money in her bank account each month than the brilliant daughter of King Edward the Fourth had with which to pay for the splendor her position at court demanded. "It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."--Cobbett.
CHAPTER L "Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years." GETTING along in years does not mean letting go--it means a man's grip is stronger, his judgment clearer and his experience a mirror in which he can look and forecast the future. By the time a man is fifty years old he has reduced his requirements for traveling through life to "a few strong instincts and a few plain rules." He has learned that he cannot sit down by the wayside to rest. He must go on and on; no matter how far he has already come; no matter how few companions are left of the company who started out foot to foot with him. A man does his best work after forty. During the seven years after he was forty, Shakespeare wrote the most and greatest of his plays. Caesar was forty-four when he began his dazzling military career. Titian, the artist whom all the world regards with awe and admiration, lived almost a century and did his best work in his later years. Tennyson published his great poem, "Crossing the Bar,'' at the age of eighty-one. And Socrates, the greatest philosopher who ever lived, uttered more thoughts and more brilliant thoughts and produced more profound philosophic utterances as he neared his death at seventy years.
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The Secret Of Wealth