Thus he obtains experience; but it is the result, not of well-doing, but of ill-doing.
Socrates recommends fathers of families to observe the practice of their thrifty neighbours--of those who spend their means to the best advantage,--and to profit by their example.

Thrift is essentially practical, and can best be taught by facts.

Two men earn, say, five shillings a day.

They are in precisely the same condition as respects family living, and expenditure Yet the one says he cannot save, and does not; while the other says he can save, and regularly deposits part of his savings in a savings bank, and eventually becomes a capitalist.
Samuel Johnson fully knew the straits of poverty.

He once signed his name _Impransus_, or _Dinnerless_.