a few pistoles at games of mere commerce, and other incidental calls of good company.  The only two articles which I will never supply are, the profusion of low riot, and the idle lavishness of negligence and laziness.  A fool squanders away, without credit or advantage to himself, more than a man of sense spends with both.  The latter employs his money as he does his time, and never spends a shilling of the one, nor a minute of the other, but in something that is either useful or rationally pleasing to himself or others.  The former buys whatever he does not want, and does not pay for what he does want.  He cannot withstand the charms of a toy-shop; snuff-boxes, watches, heads of canes, etc., are his destruction.  His servants and tradesmen conspire with his own indolence to cheat him, and in a very little time he is astonished, in the midst of all the ridiculous superfluities, to find himself in want of all the real comforts and necessaries of life.  Without care and method the largest fortune will not, and with them almost the smallest will, supply all necessary expenses.  As far as you can possibly, pay ready money for everything you buy, and avoid bills.  Pay that money too yourself, and not through the hands of any servant, who always either stipulates poundage, or requires a present for his good word, as they call it.  Where you must have bills, (as for meat and drink, clothes, etc.) pay them regularly every month, and with your own hand.  Never, from a mistaken economy, buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap; or from a silly pride, because it is dear.  Keep an account in a book, of all that you receive, and of all that you pay; for no man, who knows what he receives and what he pays, ever runs out.  I do not mean that you should keep an account of the shillings and half-crowns which you may spend in chair-hire, operas, etc.  They are unworthy of the time, and of the ink that they would consume; leave such minutiae to dull, penny-wise fellows; but remember in economy, as well as in every other part of life, to have the proper attention to proper objects, and the proper contempt for little ones.  A strong mind sees things in their true proportion; a weak one views them through a magnifying medium, which, like the microscope, makes an elephant of a flea; magnifies all little objects, but cannot receive great ones.  I have known many a man pass for a miser, by saving a penny, and wrangling for two-pence, who was undoing himself at the same time, by living above his income, and not attending to essential articles, which were above his portee.  The sure characteristic of a sound and strong mind is, to find in everything those certain bounds, quos ultra citrave nequit consistere rectum.  These boundaries are marked out by a very fine line, which only good sense and attention can discover; it is much too fine for vulgar eyes.  In manners, this line is good-breeding; beyond it, is troublesome ceremony; short of it, is