ing to the mental faculties, paralyzing to the
character, to do a thing which one's conscience forbids."

Tell the employer who expects you to do questionable things that you
can not work for him unless you can put the trade-mark of your manhood,
the stamp of your integrity, upon everything you do. Tell him that if
the highest thing in you can not bring success, surely the lowest can
not. You can not afford to sell the best thing in you, your honor,
your manhood, to a dishonest man or a lying institution. You should
regard even the suggestion that you might sell out for a consideration
as an insult.

Resolve that you will not be paid for being something less than a man;
that you will not lease your ability, your education, your
inventiveness, your self-respect, for salary, to do a man's lying for
him; either in writing advertisements, selling goods, or in any other
capacity.

Resolve that, whatever your vocation, you are going to stand for
something; that you are not going to be _merely_ a lawyer, a physician,
a merchant, a clerk, a farmer, a congressman, or a man who carries a
big money-bag; but that you are going to be a _man_ first, last, and
all the time.

CHAPTER XLVI

NATURE'S LITTLE BILL

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
FREDERICK VON LOGAU.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,
therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do
evil.--ECCLESIASTES.

Man is a watch, wound up at first but never
Wound up again: once down he's down forever.
HERRICK.

Old age seizes upon an ill-spent youth like fire upon a rotten
house.--SOUTH.

Last Sunday a young man died here of extreme old age at
twenty-five.--JOHN NEWTON.

If you will not hear Reason, she'll surely rap your knuckles.--POOR
RICHARD'S SAYINGS.

"Oh! oh! ah!" exclaimed Franklin; "what have I done to merit these
cruel sufferings?" "Many things," replied the Gout; "you have eaten
and drunk too freely, and too much indulged those legs of yours in your
indolence."

Nature seldom presents her bill on the day you violate her laws. But
if you overdraw your account at her bank, and give her a mortgage on
your body, be sure she will foreclose. She may loan you all you want;
but, like Shylock, she will demand the last ounce of flesh. She rarely
brings in her cancer bill