Here is, 1. The way to be rich. If we would live plentifully and
comfortably in the world, we must be diligent in our business, and not
shrink from the toil and trouble of it, but prosecute it closely,
improving all advantages and opportunities for it, and doing what we do
with all our might; yet we must not be hasty in it, nor hurry ourselves
and others with it, but keep doing fair and softly, which, we say, goes
far in a day. With diligence there must be contrivance. The thoughts of
the diligent are as necessary as the hand of the diligent. Forecast is
as good as work. Seest thou a man thus prudent and diligent? He will
have enough to live on. 2. The way to be poor. Those that are hasty,
that are rash and inconsiderate in their affairs, and will not take
time to think, that are greedy of gain, by right or wrong, and make
haste to be rich by unjust practices or unwise projects, are in the
ready road to poverty. Their thoughts and contrivances, by which they
hope to raise themselves, will ruin them.