Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.--BOVEE.
There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent and sincere earnestness.--DICKENS.
He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.--JOHN FOSTER.
ECONOMY.--Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.--H.W. SHAW.
Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.--SPURGEON.
Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy hide-bound pocket soon begin to thrive and will never again cry with the empty belly-ache; neither will creditors insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.--FRANKLIN.
He that, when he should not, spends too much, shall, when he would not, have too little to spend.--FELTHAM.
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. --DR. JOHNSON.
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. --FRANKLIN.
If you know how to spend less than you get you have the philosopher's stone.--FRANKLIN.
Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.--JOUBERT.
A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. --FRANKLIN.
Those individuals who save money are better workmen; if they do not the work better, they behave better and are more respectable; and I would sooner have in my trade a hundred men who save money than two hundred who would spend every shilling they get. In proportion as individuals save a little money their morals are much better; they husband that little, and there is a superior tone given to their morals, and they behave better for knowing that they have a little stake in society.