How to Succeed

ssessed by the feelings he wished to inspire. The effect produced by Charles Fox, who by the exaggerations of party spirit, was often compared to

s, without any help of learning, should conq

was in his wor

ace unto

gfel

is heart and prosper

ney, all things else are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily li

he grasp of winter, and sends them forth in a rejoicing rush. The mind of youth, when impelled by this original strength and enthusiasm of Nature, is keen, eager, inquisitive, intense, audacious, rapidl

or filling wrongly the small shoulder-of-mutton sails in this cockle skiff of thine! Thou art not among articulate-speaking friends, my brother; thou art among immeasurable dumb monsters, tumbling, howling wide as the world here. Secret, far-off, invisible to all hearts but thine, there lies a help in them: see how thou wilt get at that. Patiently thou wilt wait till the mad southwester spend itself, saving thyself by dexterous science of defence the while: valiantly, with swift decision, wilt thou strike in, when the favoring east wind, the possible, springs up. Mutiny of men thou wilt sternly repress; weakness,

o the scales of our cause in the Revolution! With what earnest singleness of aim did Lincol

at which men wondered, lay i

oor by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you." Again, he says: "God will not have His works made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work a

"but on such occasions I seem to be unconscious of the external world. Wholly engrossed by th

" said Livingstone, "that I had forgotten that I have one of my own until a sav

reached by running up three octaves from low D; "I've been chasing it for a month. I pursued it everywhere,-wh

enthusiasm which they themselves secretly look back at with a sigh, perh

at an important crisis, "want of friga

he surface of things. Not that I wish for much of what is called religious conversation. That is often apt to be on the surface. But I want a sign which one catch

method of detecting any fraud, he plunged into a full bathing tub; and, with the thought that the water that overflowed must be equal in weight to his body, he discovered the met

mark, "Give me where to stan

entered his room while engaged in geometr

captured the city, he was killed on the spot. He is

an that of Rome, is an example. They did they knew not what. The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch for a troop of cavalry. The women fought like men and conquered the Roman men. They were miserably equipped, miserably f

threatened every minute to swallow the vessel. Several writers tell the story that a great artist, Giotto, about to paint the crucifixion, induced a poor man to let him bind him upon a cross in order that he might get a better idea of the terrible scene that he was

oblivion. But when he was converted his whole life changed: he was full of enthusiasm, hopefulness and zeal. Nothing was too menial for him to undertake to carry his purpose. He chopped wood, built the fire in his little church in Lawrenceburg, Ind., of only eighteen member

ke the family. Michael Angelo neglected school to copy drawings which he dared not carry home. Murillo filled the margin of his school-book with drawings. Dryden read Polybius before he was ten years old. Le

he cattle that it is said these creatures would die for him to give him their skeletons.

forgot his food;" and that, "in the joy of its attainment, he forgot his

yer of the errand boy, George W. Childs. It is this tr

oor deaf boy, Kitto, who afterward became one of the most noted Biblical scholars in the world, and who wrote his first book in the poor-house. He had come to borrow a book. When a lad he had fallen backward from a ladder thirt

tions"-describes the accidental method by which he discovered the principle of the

nt the fine steel point into my finger. That set me to thinking. If I could record the actions of the p

t made an alphabet. I shouted the words 'Halloo! Halloo!' into the mouthpiece, ran

ants instructions, telling them what I had discovered. They laughed at me. Tha

ine would talk, but, like many young children, it had difficulty with certain sounds-in the present cas

ezia,' for example, into the stubborn surface of the wax. 'Spezia,' roared the inventor, 'Pezia' lisped the phonograph

in the extreme. To hear those grave and reverend sign

d a lit

lamb, l

avity, was to receive a practical demonstr

royal cheerfulness and never "bated one jot

him, and haunt him day and night unt

could be instructive and not be dull, cheap without being wicked. He started the Penny Magazine, which acquired a circulation of 200,000 the first year. Knight projected the Penny Cyclopedia, the Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Half-Hours With the

r independence against the designs of an ambitious and artful prince, and Philip had just rea

ance to show himself until he started the Tribune, into

round to him in the end." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not." "The man that stands by himself the universe stands by him also." "Take Michael Ange

eir own lives in their MSS., if they would write about things they have seen, that they have felt, that they have known. It is life thoughts that s

sfortune could keep Li

on the one-hundred-thousand-man. His presence

ches-that there is always room for it. To what heaps