What proportion of one's income should be expended on rent?
That depends upon circumstances.

In the country about one-tenth; in London about one-sixth.

It is at all events better to save too much, than spend too much.

One may remedy the first defect, but not so easily the latter.

Wherever there is a large family, the more money that is put to one side and saved, the better.
Economy is necessary to the moderately rich, as well as to the comparatively poor man.