lower, strength, endurance, vigilance, and capacity to achieve. It bestows great power on him who learns it well. Who has realized in all its force the supreme strength of Economy?
Liberality follows economy. It is not opposed to it. Only the man of economy can afford to be generous. The spendthrift, whether in money, vitality, or mental energy, wastes so much on his own miserable pleasures as to have none left to bestow upon others. The giving of money is the smallest part of liberality. There is a giving of thoughts, and deeds, and sympathy, the bestowing of good-will, the being generous toward calumniators and opponents. It is a principle that begets a noble, far-reaching influence. It brings loving friends and stanch comrades, and is the foc of loneliness and despair. Who has measured the breadth of Liberality?
Self-control is the last of these five principles, yet the most important. Its
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