You would rather be a lawyer? The same effort to be a doctor must be made. You can not be a lawyer just because you are bright and say funny things sometimes.
Whatever you decide to do, whether farmer, doctor, lawyer, blacksmith, carpenter, or merchant, be one or the other and do not try to straddle all of them.
A Jack of All Trades is master of none, and he is not wanted in this age of specialties. Be some one thing and be that thing for all there is in it.
WORK FOR SUCCESS WHILE YOUNG
Youth is the time to work for success.
Old age is the winter time of life and if no provision has been made to acquire a competence before that period, it will be an unhappy time, perhaps a miserable existence as the result.
Success has no tomorrow, it is always today, and if the sun of today sets upon failure, it can not be hoped that it will rise tomorrow upon success, there being nothing to cause it to do so.
There is no greater duty to be performed by man than to lay by provision for the future. Even the animals prepare for a rainy day, the worst specimens are those who neglect this instinct.
It is an instinct, the instinct of self-preservation.
Experience demonstrates, in fact, it has become an axiom of science, that after a certain age, a man is incompetent to perform his duties in as profitable a manner as before.