Their economy knew how to avoid what the Creole-African apothegm calls commerce Man Lizonqui asseté pou' trois picaillons et vend' pou' ein escalin (bought for three picayunes and sold for two); but it was an economy that made their very hound a Spartan; for, had that economy been half as wise as it was heroic, his one meal a day would not always have been the cook's leavings of cold rice and the lickings of the gumbo plates.

This conclusion he expressed in a philosophic apothegm which was preserved by his disciples, in these words: Ipan in chicunauitlamanpan meztica in tloque nahuaque palne nohuani teyocoyani icel teotl oquiyocox in ixquex quexquex in ittoni ihuan amo ittoni.

Married people have the whole burden of life to bear, while the unmarried have only half, was a characteristically selfish apothegm.

This sententious apothegm is thrown out in contemplating the life of Savage, one of the English poets who united some of the highest requisites of genius with the lowest personal habits.