How much others aid us in winning success;
But the Fourth of July and the oyster must see
What failures, without any crackers, they’d be.
When all is holiday, there are no holidays.—Lamb.
This timely notice telling you what the world is going to ask you to perform is as if you were told to prepare to take an extended and important journey. It would require some time for you to procure a trunk and a traveling-bag and to select wearing apparel suitable for the undertaking. Then, too, you would need to study maps and time-tables so as to select the best lines of travel and to make advantageous connections with trains and steamships. Furthermore, it would be for your best interests to read books describing the countries through which you were to pass, and to learn as much as possible regarding their peoples and customs.
Let’s take the instant by the forward top.—Shakespeare.
I have generally found that the man who is good at an excuse is good for nothing else.—Franklin.
I feel and grieve, but, by the grace of God, I fret at nothing.—John Wesley.
As a matter of fact you are preparing to start on an extended and important journey. You are going out into the big world, by and by, to do business. You are going into partnership with the world, after a fashion. You are to put into the business your honesty, industry, integrity, and ability, and in return for your contributions, the world is to bestow upon you all the honor, fame, goodwill, and happiness of mind that your manner of living your life shall merit. The world is only too willing to bargain for the highest and noblest and best products of the human mind with any one who can