Keep Learning

"To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;

To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;

To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:

That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning" Proverbs 1: 2-5

No young man on the verge of life ought to be in the least discouraged by the fact that he is not stamped with the hall mark of Yale, Harvard or Oxford.

Reading, indeed, is the real source both of education and of style. Read what you like, not what somebody else tells you that you ought to like. That reading alone is valuable which becomes part of the reader's own mind and nature, and this can never be the case if the matter is not the result of your choosing.

The lonely island of Nantucket might not be considered a very favorable place to win success and fame. But Maria Mitchell, on seventy-five dollars a year, as librarian of the Nantucket Athenaeum, found time and opportunity to become a celebrated astronomer

When all is said and done, the real education is the market-place of the street. There the study of character enables the boy of judgment to develop an uncanny proficiency in estimating the value of the currency of the realm.

Experiences teaches us time and again that no man ought to be downcast in setting out on the adventure of life by a lack of formal knowledge.

If you want to get rich, study yourself and your own wants. You will find that millions have the same wants. The safest business is always connected with man's prime necessities. He must have clothing and a dwelling; he must eat. He wants comforts, facilities of all kinds for pleasure, luxuries, education, and culture. Any man who can supply a great want of humanity, improve any methods which men use, supply any demand of comfort, or contribute in any way to their well-being, can earn great riches.

"One or another
In money or guns may surpass his brother.
But whoever shall know,
As the long days go.
That to live is happy, has found his heaven."

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - DISRAELI.