One of them I remember to this day.

It was apropos of my saying that there is a danger of its own kind in extreme poverty.

A young man might know too much want.

She answered me: "True! That is so! But there is a danger that overrides it;" and after a time went on: "It is better not to know wants than not to know want!" I tell you, boy, that is a great truth, and I hope you will remember it for yourself as well as a part of the wisdom of your mother.

And here let me say something else which is a sort of corollary of that wise utterance: I dare say you thought me very hard and unsympathetic that time I would not, as one of your trustees, agree to your transferring your little fortune to Miss MacKelpie.