Chapter XXIX: Part XI: Health and Wealth (2)

3278. _Apparatus._--When a person receives a severe contusion of the leg or foot, or breaks his leg, or has painful ulcers over the leg, or is unable from some cause to bear the pressure of the bed-clothes, it is advisable to know how to keep them from hurting the leg.

3279. This may be done by bending up a fire-guard, or placing a chair, resting upon the edge of its back and front of the seat over the leg, or putting a box on each side of it, and placing a plank over them; but the best way is to make a _cradle_, as it is called.

3280. This is done by getting three pieces of wood, and three pieces of iron wire, and passing the wire or hoop through the wood. This can be placed to any height, and is very useful in all cases where pressure cannot be borne.

3281. Wooden hoops cut in halves answer better than the wire.

3282. When a person breaks his leg, and _splints_ cannot be had directly, get a bunch of straw or twigs, and roll it up in a handkerchief, and place one on each side of the leg or arm, and bind another handkerchief firmly around them, or make a long bag about three inches in diameter, or even more, of coarse linen duck, or carpet, and stuff this full of bran, sawdust, or sand; sew up the end, and use this the same as the twigs. It forms an excellent extemporaneous splint.

3283. Another good plan is to get a hat-box made of chip, and cut it into suitable lengths, or for want of all these, some bones out of a pair of stays, and run them through a stout piece of rug, protecting the leg with a fold of rug, linen, &c.

3284. When dry warmth is required to be applied to any part of the body, fry a flour pancake and lay it over the part; or warm some sand and place in the patient's socks, and lay it to the part; salt does as well, and may be put into a paper bag; or warm water put into ginger-beer bottles or stone jars, and rolled up in flannel.

3285. _Violent shocks_ will sometimes stun a person, and he will remain unconscious.

3286. Untie strings, collars, &c.; loose any thing that is tight, and interferes with the breathing; raise the head; see if there is bleeding from any part; apply smelling-salts to the nose, and hot bottles to the feet.

3287. _In concussion_, the surface of the body is cold and pale, and the pulse weak and small, the breathing slow and _gentle_, and the pupil of the eye generally contracted or small. You can get an answer by speaking loud, so as to arouse the patient.

3288. Give a little brandy and water, keep the place quiet, apply warmth, and do not raise the head too high. If you tickle the feet, the patient feels it.

3289. _In Compression of the Brain_, from any cause, such as apoplexy, or a piece of fractured bone pressing on it, there is loss of sensation. If you tickle the feet, he does not feel it. You cannot arouse him so as to get an answer. The pulse is slow and labored, the breathing slow, labored, and _snorting_; the pupils enlarged.

3290. Raise the head, unloose strings or tight things, and send for a surgeon. If one cannot be got at once, apply mustard-poultices and hot water to the feet, and leeches to the temples; or cold water, which is better.

3291. _Choking._--When a person has a fish bone in the throat, insert the forefinger, press upon the root of the tongue, so as to induce vomiting; if this does not do, let them swallow a _large piece_ of potato or soft bread; and if these fail, give a mustard or soap emetic.

3292. _Fainting, Hysterics, &c._--Loosen the garments, bathe the temples with water or Eau de Cologne: fresh air; avoid bustle and excessive sympathy.

3293. _Apparent Death from Drunkenness._--Raise the head, unloose the clothes, maintain warmth of surface, and give a mustard emetic as soon as the person can swallow.

3294. _Apoplexy, and Fits generally._--Raise the head; unloose all tight clothes, strings, &c.; apply cold lotions to the head and cold water, and use hot applications to the feet. Send for a doctor as soon as possible.

3295. _Suffocation_ from noxious gases, &c. Remove to the fresh air: dash cold vinegar and water in the face, neck and breast; keep up the warmth of the body; if necessary, apply mustard-poultices to the soles of the feet, and try artificial respiration as in drowning.

3296. _Lightning and Sun-stroke._--Treat the same as apoplexy; that is, use plenty of cold water.

3297. _Hanging._--Loose the cord, or whatever suspended the person, and proceed as for drowning, taking the additional precaution to apply eight or ten leeches to the temples, or cold water.

LEECHES AND THEIR APPLICATION.

3298. The leech used for medical purposes is called the _Hirudo medicinalis_, to distinguish it from other varieties, such as the horse-leech and the Lisbon leech.

3299. It varies from two to four inches in length, and is of a blackish brown color, marked on the back with six yellow spots, and edged with a yellow line on each side.

3300. Formerly leeches were supplied by Sweden, but latterly most of the leeches are procured from France, where they are now becoming scarce.

3301. When leeches are applied to a part, it should be thoroughly freed from down or hair by shaving, and all liniments, &c., carefully and effectually cleaned away by washing.

3302. If the leech is hungry it will soon bite, but sometimes great difficulty is experienced in getting them to fasten on. When this is the case, roll the leech into a little porter, or moisten the surface with a little blood, or milk, or sugar and water.

3303. Leeches may be applied by holding them over the part with a piece of linen cloth or by means of an inverted glass, under which they must be placed.

3304. When applied to the gums, care should be taken to use a leech glass, as they are apt to creep down the patient's throat; a large swan's quill will answer the purpose of a leech glass.

3305. When leeches are gorged they will drop off themselves; never _tear_ them off from a person, but just dip the point of a moistened finger into some salt, and touch them with it.

3306. Be sure never to allow any one to go to sleep with leech bites bleeding, without watching them carefully; and never apply too many to children.

3307. If a leech is accidentally swallowed, or by any means gets into the body, employ an emetic, or enema of salt and water.

3308. It is to be hoped that these disgusting worms will soon be banished with the lancet from the practice.

3309. _Taking blood_ is now conceded, by the best physicians, to be injurious.

3310. "_The life is the blood._"--Whoever takes away blood, weakens life.--(See page 127.)

3311. _Bruises and Inflammation._--Use warm water; bathings are better than scarifications.

3312. _Burns and Scalds._--(See pages 109, 110.)--_Vitriol Accidents._--See page 110.

3313. _Poisons and their Remedies._--See pages 120, 121, 122.

3314. _Body in Flames._--Lay the person down on the floor of the room, and throw the tablecloth, rug, or other large cloth over him, and roll him on the floor.

3315. _Dirt in the Eye._--Place your forefinger upon the cheekbone, having the patient before you; then draw up the finger and you will probably be able to remove the dirt; but if this will not enable you to get at it, repeat this operation while you have a netting-needle or bodkin placed over the eye-lid; this will turn it inside out, and enable you to remove the sand, or eyelash, &c., with the corner of a fine silk handkerchief.

3316. As soon as the substance is removed, bathe the eye with warm water and exclude the light for a day. If the inflammation is severe, take a purgative and use a refrigerant lotion. (969.)

3317. _Lime in the Eye._--Syringe it well with warm vinegar and water (one ounce to eight ounces of water); take a purgative, and exclude light.

3318. _Iron or Steel Spiculæ in the Eye._--This occurs while turning iron or steel in a lathe.

3319. Drop a solution of sulphate of copper (from one to three grains of the salt to one ounce of water) into the eye, or keep the eye open in a wine-glassful of the solution.

3320. Take a purgative, bathe with cold lotion, and exclude light to keep down inflammation.

3321. _Dislocated Thumb._--This is frequently produced by a fall. Make a clove hitch, by passing two loops of cord over the thumb, placing a piece of rag under the cord to prevent it cutting the thumb; then pull in the same line as the thumb. Afterward apply a cold lotion.

3322. _Cuts and Wounds._--Cut thin strips of sticking-plaster, and bring the parts together; or if large and deep, cut two broad pieces so as to look like the teeth of a comb, and place one on each side of the wound, which must be cleaned previously.

3323. These pieces must be arranged so that they shall interlace one another; then, by laying hold of the pieces on the right hand side with one hand, and those on the other side with the other hand, and pulling them from one another, the edges of the wound are brought together, and without any difficulty.

3324. _Hemorrhage_, when caused by an artery being divided or torn, may be known by the blood _jumping_ out of the wound, and being of a bright scarlet color.

3325. If a vein is injured, the blood is darker, and flows continuously. To stop the latter, apply pressure by means of a compress and bandage.

3326. To arrest arterial bleeding, get a piece of wood (part of a mop-handle will do), and tie a piece of tape to one end of it; then tie a piece of tape loosely over the arm, and pass the other end of the wood under it; twist the stick round and round until the tape compresses the arm sufficiently to arrest the bleeding, and then confine the other end by tying the string round the arm.

3327. If the bleeding is very obstinate, and it occurs in the _arm_, place a cork underneath the string, on the inside of the fleshy part, where the artery may be felt beating by any one; if in the _leg_, place a cork in the direction of a line drawn from the inner part of the knee a little to the outside of the groin.

3328. It is an excellent thing to accustom yourself to find out the position of these arteries, or indeed any that are superficial, and to explain to everyone in your house where they are, and how to stop bleeding.

3329. If a stick cannot be got, take a handkerchief, make a cord bandage of it, and tie a knot in the middle; the knot acts as a compress, and should be placed over the artery, while the two ends are to be tied around the thumb.

3330. Observe always _to place the ligature between the wound and the heart_.

3331. Putting your finger into a bleeding wound, and making pressure until a surgeon arrives, will generally stop violent bleeding.

3332. _Bleeding from the nose_, from whatever cause, may generally be stopped by putting a plug of lint into the nostrils.--See pp. 95-6.

3333. _In dangerous accidents always send off for a surgeon immediately an accident occurs, but treat as directed until he arrives._

3334. _Accidents._--See page 94.

RICHES.

3335. "The way to wealth," says Doctor Franklin, "is as plain as the way to market."

3336. Many men, however, either miss the way, or stumble and fall on the road.

3337. Fortune, they say, is a fickle dame--full of her freaks and caprices; who blindly distributes her favors without the slightest discrimination. So inconstant, so wavering is she represented, that her most faithful votaries can place no reliance on her promises.

3338. Disappointment, they tell us, is the lot of those who make offerings at her shrine. Now, all this is a vile slander upon the dear blind lady.

3339. Although wealth often appears the result of mere accident, or a fortunate concurrence of favorable circumstances, without any exertion of skill or foresight, yet every man of sound health and unimpaired mind may become wealthy, if he takes the proper steps.

3340. Foremost in the list of requisites, are honesty and strict integrity in every transaction of life. Let a man have the reputation of being fair and upright in his dealings, and he will possess the confidence of all who know him.

3341. Without these qualities, every other merit will prove unavailing. Ask concerning a man, "Is he active and capable?" Yes. "Industrious, temperate, and regular in his habits?" O yes.

3342. "Is he honest? is he trustworthy?" Why, as to that, I am sorry to say that he is not to be trusted; he wants watching; he is a little tricky, and will take an undue advantage, if he can.

3343. "Then I will have nothing to do with him:" will be the invariable reply.

3344. In a word, it is almost impossible for a dishonest man to acquire wealth by a regular process of business, because he is shunned as a depredator upon society.

3345. Needy men are apt to deviate from the rule of integrity, under the plea that _necessity_ knows no law; they might as well add that it knows no shame.

3346. The course is suicidal, and by destroying all confidence, ever keeps them immured in poverty, although they may possess every other quality for success in the world.

3347. Punctuality, which is said to be the soul of business, is another important element in the art of money-getting.

3348. Therefore be prompt in your payments.

3349. Next, let us consider the advantages of a cautious circumspection in our intercourse with the world. Slowness of belief, and a proper distrust are essential to success.

3350. The credulous and confiding are ever the dupes of knaves and impostors. Ask those who have lost their property how it happened, and you will find in most cases it has been owing to misplaced confidence.

3351. One has lost by endorsing; another by crediting; another by false representations; all of which a little more foresight and a little more distrust would have prevented.

3352. In the affairs of this world, men are not saved by faith, but by the want of it.

3353. Judge of men by what they do, not by what they say. Believe in looks rather than in words.

3354. Before trusting a man, before putting it in his power to cause you a loss, possess yourself of every available information relative to him.

3355. Learn his history, his habits, inclinations and propensities; his reputation for honesty, industry, frugality, and punctuality; his prospects, resources, supports, advantages and disadvantages; his intentions and motives of action; who are his friends and enemies, and what are his good or bad qualities.

3356. You may learn a man's good qualities and advantages from his friends--his bad qualities and disadvantages from his enemies. Make due allowance for exaggeration in both.

3357. Finally, examine carefully before engaging in any thing, and act with energy afterward. Have the hundred eyes of Argus beforehand, and the hundred hands of Briareus afterward.

3358. Order and system in the management of business must not be neglected. Nothing contributes more to dispatch.

3359. Do first what presses most, and having determined what is to be done, and how it is to be done, lose no time in doing it. Without this method, all is hurry and confusion, little or nothing is accomplished, and business is attended to with neither pleasure nor profit.

3360. A polite, affable deportment is recommended.

3361. Take two men, possessing equal advantages in every other respect, but let one be gentlemanly, kind, obliging, and conciliating in his manners; the other harsh, rude, and disobliging, and the one will become rich, while the other will starve.

3362. _Industry._--We are now to consider a very important principle in the business of money-getting, namely--_Industry_--persevering, indefatigable, attention to business.

3363. Persevering diligence is the philosopher's stone, which turns every thing to gold. Constant, regular, habitual, and systematic application to business must, in time, if properly directed, produce great results.

3364. It must lead to wealth, with the same certainty that poverty follows in the train of idleness and inattention.

3365. It has been truly remarked, that he who follows his amusements instead of his business, will, in a short time, have no business to follow.

3366. The art of money-saving is an important part of the art of money-getting. Without frugality, no one can become rich; with it, few would be poor. Those who consume as fast as they produce, are on the road to ruin.

3367. As most of the poverty we meet with grows out of idleness and extravagance, so most large fortunes have been the result of habitual industry and frugality.

3368. The practice of economy is as necessary in the expenditure of time as of money. They say that if "we take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves." So, if we take care of the minutes, the days will take care of themselves.

3669. Away, then, with your expensive follies, and you will not then have so much cause to complain of hard times, heavy taxes, and chargeable families.

3370. Many, for the sake of finery on the back, have gone with a hungry stomach, and half starved their families.

3371. The acquisition of wealth demands as much self-denial, and as many sacrifices of present gratification, as the practice of virtue itself.

3372. Vice and poverty proceed, in some degree, from the same sources, namely--the disposition to sacrifice the future to the present; the inability to forego a small present pleasure for great future advantages.

3373. Men fail of fortune in this world, as they fail of happiness in the world to come, simply because they are unwilling to deny themselves momentary enjoyments for the sake of permanent future happiness.

3374. Every large city is filled with persons, who, in order to support the appearance of wealth, constantly live beyond their income, and make up the deficiency by contracting debts which are never paid.

3375. Others there are, the mere drones of society, who pass their days in idleness, and subsist by pirating on the hives of the industrious.

3376. Many who run a short-lived career of splendid beggary, could they but be persuaded to adopt a system of rigid economy for a few years, might pass the remainder of their days in affluence.

3377. But no! They must keep up _appearances_, they must live like other folks.

3378. Their debts accumulate; their credit fails; they are harassed by duns, and besieged by constables and sheriffs.

3379. In this extremity, as a last resort, they submit to a shameful dependence, or engage in criminal practices, which entail hopeless wretchedness and infamy on themselves and families.

3380. Stick to the business in which you are regularly employed. Let speculators make their thousands in a year or a day; mind your own regular trade, never turning from it to the right hand or to the left.

3381. If you are a merchant, a professional man, or a mechanic, never buy lots or stocks unless you have surplus money which you wish to invest. Your own business you understand as well as other men; but other people's business you do not understand.

3382. Let your business be some one which is useful to the community. All such occupations possess the elements of profit in themselves.

3383. To the foregoing advice we add the description of _the hero in business life_.

3384. A sacred regard to the principles of justice forms the basis of every transaction, and regulates the conduct of the upright man of business.

3385. He is strict in keeping his engagements.

3386. Does nothing carelessly or in a hurry.

3387. Employs nobody to do what he can easily do himself.

3388. Keeps every thing in its proper place.

3389. Leaves nothing undone that ought to be done, and which circumstances permit him to do.

3390. Keeps his designs and business from the view of others.

3391. Is prompt and decisive with his customers, and does not overtrade his capital.

3392. Prefers short credits to long ones; and cash to credit at all times, either in buying or selling; and small profits in credit cases with little risk, to the chance of better gains with more hazard.

3393. He is clear and explicit in all his bargains.

3394. Leaves nothing of consequence to memory which he can and ought to commit to writing.

3395. Keeps copies of all his important letters which he sends away, and has every letter, invoice, &c., relating to his business, titled, classed, and put away.

3396. Never suffers his desk to be confused by many papers lying upon it.

3397. Is always at the head of his business, well knowing that if he leaves it, it will leave him.

3398. Holds it as a maxim that he whose credit is suspected is not one to be trusted.

3399. Is constantly examining his books, and sees through all his affairs as far as care and attention will enable him.

3400. Balances regularly at stated times, and then makes out and transmits all his accounts-current to his customers, both at home and abroad.

3401. He avoids, as much as possible, all sorts of accommodation in money matters and lawsuits where there is the least hazard.

3402. He is economical in his expenditure, always living within his income.

3403. Keeps a memorandum-book in his pocket, in which he notes every particular relative to appointments, addresses, and petty cash matters.

3404. Is cautious how he becomes security for any person; and is generous when urged by motives of humanity.

3405. Let a man act strictly to these habits; when once begun they will be easy to continue in--ever remembering that he hath no profits by his pains whom Providence doth not prosper--and success will attend his efforts.

3406. If he has a good wife, who does her part, the happiness of the noble-hearted business-man is as secure as humanity admits.

TEMPERANCE.

3407. To "be temperate in all things," is the command; a rule necessary for men in order to acquire wealth righteously, and enjoy health perfectly.

3408. Late hours, irregular habits, and want of attention to diet, are common errors with most young men, and these gradually, but at first imperceptibly, undermine the health, and lay the foundation for various forms of disease in after life.

3409. It is a very difficult thing to make young persons comprehend this. They frequently sit up as late as twelve, one, or two o'clock, without experiencing any ill effects; they go without a meal to-day, and to-morrow eat to repletion, with only temporary inconvenience.

3410. One night they will sleep three or four hours, and the next nine or ten; or one night, in their eagerness to get away into some agreeable company, they will take no food at all; and the next, perhaps, will eat a hearty supper, and go to bed upon it.

3411. These, with various other irregularities, are common to the majority of young men, and are, as just stated, the cause of much bad health in mature life.

3412. Indeed, nearly all the shattered constitutions with which too many are cursed, are the result of a disregard to the plainest precepts of health in early life.

3413. Laborers, and other working people, more especially those whose occupations require them to be much in the open air, may be considered as following a regulated system of moderation; and hence the higher degree of health which prevails among them and their families.

3414. They also observe rules; and those which it is said were recommended by Old Parr are remarkable for good sense; namely--

3415. "Keep your head cool by temperance, your feet warm by exercise; rise early, and go soon to bed; and if you are inclined to get fat, keep your eyes open and your mouth shut."

3416. In other words, sleep moderately, and be abstemious in diet;--excellent admonitions, more especially to those inclined to corpulency.

3417. The advantage to be derived from a regular mode of living, with a view to the preservation of health and life, are nowhere better exemplified than in the precepts and practice of Plutarch, whose rules for this purpose are excellent; and by observing them himself, he maintained his bodily strength and mental faculties unimpaired to a very advanced age.

3418. Galen is a still stronger proof of the advantages of a regular plan, by means of which he reached the great age of 140 years, without having ever experienced disease.

3419. His advice to the readers of his "Treatise on Health," is as follows:

3420. "I beseech all persons who shall read this work, not to degrade themselves to a level with the brutes, or the rabble, by gratifying their sloth, or by eating and drinking promiscuously whatever pleases their palates, or by indulging their appetites of every kind.

3421. "But, whether they understand physic, or not, let them consult their reason, and observe what agrees, and what does not agree with them, that, like wise men, they may adhere to the use of such things as conduce to their health, and forbear every thing which, by their own experience, they find to do them hurt; and let them be assured that, by a diligent observation and practice of this rule, they may enjoy a good share of health, and seldom stand in need of physic or physicians."

3422. The celebrated maxims of Dr. Franklin, published as the "Sayings of Poor Richard," deserve a place in this family book.

3423. I have sought out, and here bring together, over one hundred of these prudent precepts.

THE WAY TO WEALTH.

3424. God helps those who help themselves.

3425. Many words won't fill a bushel.

3426. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.

3427. The key often used is always bright.

3428. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

3429. The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

3430. There will be time enough for sleep, in the grave.

3431. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

3432. Lost time is never found again.

3433. What we call time enough, always proves little enough.

3434. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy.

3435. He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

3436. Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

3437. Drive thy business, lest it drive thee.

3438. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

3439. Industry need not wish.

3440. He that lives upon hope, will die fasting.

3441. There are no gains without pains.

3442. Help, hands, for I have no lands.

3443. He that hath a trade, hath an estate, and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor; but the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither will enable us to pay our taxes.

3444. The drone in the hive makes no honey.

3445. At the working-man's house hunger looks in, but does not enter.

3446. Industry pays debts, but despair increaseth them.

3447. Diligence is the mother of good luck.

3448. God gives all things to industry.

3449. Plow deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and to keep.

3450. One to-day is worth two to-morrow.

3451. Have you somewhat to do to-morrow, do it to-day.

3452. If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you, then, your own master? be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

3453. The cat in gloves catches no mice.

3454. Handle your tools without mittens.

3455. Light strokes fell great oaks.

3456. By diligence and patience, the mouse ate into the cable.

3457. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

3458. A life of leisure and a life of laziness, are two things.

3459. Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease.

3460. Many would live by their wits, without labor, but they break for want of stock.

3461. Industry gives comfort, plenty, and respect.

3462. Fly pleasures, and they'll follow you.

3463. Now I have a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good-morrow.

3464. I never saw an oft-removed tree,
Nor yet an oft-removed family,
That throve so well as one that settled be.

3465. Three removes are as bad as a fire.

3466. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.

3467. If you would have your business done, go; if not, send.

3468. He that by the plow would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive.

3469. The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

3470. Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.

3471. Not to oversee workmen, is to leave them your purse open.

3472. In the affairs of the world, men are saved not by faith, but for the want of it.

3473. Learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and heaven to the virtuous.

3474. If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

3475. A little neglect may breed great mischief.

3476. For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
For want of a shoe the horse was lost;
For want of a horse the rider was lost--
Being overtaken and slain by the enemy.

3477. If a man save not as he gets, he may keep his nose to the grindstone all his life, and die not worth a groat.

3478. A fat kitchen makes a lean will.

3479. Many estates are spent in the getting,
Since women for tea, forsook spinning and knitting
And men for punch, forsook hewing and splitting.

3480. The Indies did not make Spain rich, because her outgoes were greater than her incomes.

3481. Women and wine, game and deceit,
Make the wealth small, and the want great.

3482. What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

3483. Many a little makes a mickle.

3484. Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

3485. Who dainties love, shall beggars prove.

3486. Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

3487. Buy what thou dost not need, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.

3488. At a great bargain pause awhile.

3489. Many have been ruined by good bargains.

3490. It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance.

3491. Wise men learn by other's harms, fools scarcely by their own.

3492. Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets, put out the kitchen fire.

3493. For one poor person, there are a hundred indigent.

3494. A plowman on his legs, is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

3495. Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom.

3496. When the well is dry we know the worth of water.

3497. If you would know the value of money, try to borrow.

3498. He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.

3499. Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse;
Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.

3500. Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.

3501. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

3502. Vessels large may venture more,
But little boats should keep the shore.

3503. Pride that shines on vanity sups on contempt.

3504. Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.

3505. What is a butterfly? At best
He's but a caterpillar dress'd;
The gaudy fop's his picture just.

3506. The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.

3507. Lying rides upon debt's back.

3508. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

3509. Creditors have better memories than debtors.

3510. Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

3511. Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

3512. The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the debtor to the creditor.

3513. For age and want save while you may,
No morning sun lasts a whole day.

3514. It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

3515. Rather go supperless to bed than rise in debt.

3516. Get what you can, and what you get hold;
'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold.

3517. Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

3518. They that will not be counseled cannot be helped.

3519. If you will not reason, she will surely rap their knuckles.

3520. Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

3521. After feasts made, the maker shakes his head.

3522. There is neither honor nor gain got in dealing with a villain.

3523. Visits should be like a winter's day, short.

3524. A house without woman and firelight,
Is like a body without soul or sprite.

3525. Light purse, heavy heart.

3526. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

3527. Hunger never saw bad bread.

3528. Great talkers, little doers.

3529. A rich rogue is like a fat hog;
He does no good till as dead as a log.

3530. Relation without friendship, friendship without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, and profit without virtue, are not worth a farthing.

3531. He has changed his one-eyed horse for a blind one.

3532. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

3533. Tongue double, brings trouble.

3534. He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.