...Essays, and do not pass OTer his simple calculation that fourpunce a day is six pounds a-year- — take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves. With the high moral advantages that you possess, I am satisfied that a mere hint will suffice respecting...

...on the day, do you carefully improve, or do you trifle away, its hours ? There is a proverb, " if we take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves ;" so, if we spend our minutes well, we shall insure a well-spent day. Of course I do not mean, that,...

...rule and order. I have somewhere met with the following aphorism of the thrifty in worldly affairs, '' Take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves;" intimating that large expenditures will not be unnoticed, Tvhilst smaller sums, without care and attention,...

...penny laid np will be many— Little and often fills the parse — Л penny saved is a penny got— Take care of the pence ; the pounds will take care of themselves — Many a little makes a micklc — He that will not keep a penny shall never have a penny — A small...

...observe frugality, and the strictest economy in the smallest expenditure, recollecting the old proverb, " take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves :" fourthly, obtain a knowledge of the objects of nature and art, and an early habit of receiving pleasure...

...hands of an HONEST MAN who informs you of it. The PsTTY-Cash Book, according to the Old Adage of " Take care of the Pence, the Pounds will take care of themselves,'' is, however, gravely examined into, as though the whole weight of the concern depended, solely, upon...

...such extensive application, that with a few observations upon it I shall conclude the present paper. " Take care of the pence ; the pounds will take care of themselves ;" in its literal sense is confined to pecuniary affairs ; and even in this light alone will be found...

...of the truth of the old proverbs, that " many a little makes a meikle, or much," and that " if you take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves." Some years ago, when wages were much lower, and dress not cheaper, but more plain and substantial than...

...money. It had been said to be a small expense. That argument could not warrant the ill use of it. " Take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves," was an old but (rue adage. Therefore, no saving whatever was "pitiful," or "paltry.1' The gentleman...

...affairs. There is a maxim which I have always thought was universal in its application, that if you take care of the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves ; but I fear the County of Philadelphia is ever an exception to this rule. For I was informed but the...