Chapter XXVIII: Letter VIII: Trades

Non possidentem multa vocaveris
Recte beatum: rectius occupat
Nomen Beati, qui Deorum
Muneribus sapienter uti,
Duramque callet pauperiem pati.

_Hor._ lib. iv. od. 9 [vv. 45-9].

Non uxor salvum te vult, non filius: omnes
Vicini oderunt; noti, pueri atque puellæ.
Miraris, cum tu argento post omnia ponas,
Si nemo præstet, quem non merearis, amorem?

_Hor._ Sat. lib. 1. [Sat. 1. vv. 84-7].

Non propter vitam faciunt patrimonia quidam,
Sed vitio cæci propter patrimonia vivunt.

_Juvenal._ Sat. 12. [vv. 50-1].

No extensive Manufactories in the Borough: yet considerable Fortunes
made there--Ill Judgment of Parents in disposing of their
Sons--The best educated not the most likely to
succeed--Instance--Want of Success compensated by the lenient
Power of some Avocations--The Naturalist--The Weaver an
Entomologist, &c.--A Prize-Flower--Story of Walter and William.