oor man, without
stain of dishonor, though he might easily have made himself a
millionaire. When he died the "Figaro" said, "The Republic has lost
its greatest man." American boys should study this great man, for he
loved our country, and took our Republic as the pattern for France.

There is no grander sight in the world than that of a young man fired
with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim. He is bound to
win; the world stands to one side and lets him pass; it always makes
way for the man with a will in him. He does not have one-half the
opposition to overcome that the undecided, purposeless man has who,
like driftwood, runs against all sorts of snags to which he must yield
simply because he has no momentum to force them out of his way. What a
sublime spectacle it is to see a youth going straight to his goal,
cutting his way through difficulties, and surmounting obstacles which
dishearten others, as though they were but stepping-stones! Defeat,
like a gymnasium, only gives him new power; opposition only doubles his
exertions; dangers only increase his courage. No matter what comes to
him, sickness, poverty, disaster, he never turns his eye from his goal.

"_Duos qui sequitur lepores, neutrum capit._"

CHAPTER XL

WORK AND WAIT

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we
already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of
self-discipline.--H. P. LIDDON.

I consider a human soul without education like marble in a quarry,
which shows none of its inherent beauties until the skill of the
polisher sketches out the colors, makes the surface shine, and
discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs throughout
the body of it.--ADDISON.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practise what
you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.--ARNOLD.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.--SENECA.

The more you know, the more you can save yourself and that which
belongs to you, and do more work with less effort.--CHARLES KINGSLEY.

"I was a mere cipher in that vast sea of human enterprise," said Henry
Bessemer, speaking of his arrival in London in 1831. Although but
eighteen years old, and without an acquaintance in the city, he soon
made work for himself by inventing a process of copying bas-reliefs on
cardboard. His method was so simple that one could learn in ten
minutes how to make a die from