iron steeds to as many freighted
cars, and sent them flying from town to town and nation to nation;
tunneled mountains of granite, and annihilated space with the
lightning's speed. Perseverance has whitened the waters of the world
with the sails of a hundred nations, navigated every sea and explored
every land. Perseverance has reduced nature in her thousand forms to as
many sciences, taught her laws, prophesied her future movements,
measured her untrodden spaces, counted her myriad hosts of worlds, and
computed their distances, dimensions, and velocities.

"Whoever is resolved to excel in painting, or, indeed, in any other
art," said Reynolds, "must bring all his mind to bear upon that one
object from the moment that he rises till he goes to bed."

"If you work hard two weeks without selling a book," wrote a publisher
to an agent, "you will make a success of it."

"Know thy work and do it," said Carlyle; "and work at it like a
Hercules. One monster there is in the world--an idle man."

CHAPTER XVIII.

SAVE.

If you want to test a young man and ascertain whether nature
made him for a king or a subject, give him a thousand dollars
and see what he will do with it. If he is born to conquer and
command, he will put it quietly away till he is ready to use it
as opportunity offers. If he is born to serve, he will
immediately begin to spend it in gratifying his ruling
propensity.
--PARTON.

The man who builds, and lacks wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away.
--YOUNG.

Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou
shalt sell thy necessaries.

For age and want save while you may:
No morning sun lasts a whole day.
--FRANKLIN.

Whatever be your talents, whatever be your prospects, never
speculate away on a chance of a palace that which you may need
as a provision against the workhouse.
--BULWER.

"What do you do with all these books?" "Oh, that library is my 'one
cigar a day,'" was the response. "What do you mean?" "Mean! Just this:
when you bothered me so about being a man, and learning to smoke, I'd
just been reading about a young fellow who bought books with money that
others would have spent in smoke, and I thought I'd try and do the
same. You remember, I said I should allow myself one cigar a day."
"Yes." "Well, I never smoked. I just put by the price of a five-cent
cigar every d