THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.

Ballantyne Press

CALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

THE

SECRET OF SUCCESS;

OR,

HOW TO GET ON IN THE WORLD.

WITH SOME

REMARKS UPON TRUE AND FALSE SUCCESS,
AND THE ART OF MAKING THE BEST USE OF LIFE.

'The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well."

H. W. Longfellow.

Ballantyne Press.

BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

The way we trifle with time-How it is wasted-Economy of time

never inculcated-The young see nothing but waste of time

going on around them-Yet the day lost cannot be recovered-

Time is every man's estate-Make use of the golden hours—

Silliness of the complaint of want of time-Method makes time

-Utilising odd minutes-Examples-Goethe's good advice-

Wesley's maxim-A man should be always learning-The

power of the littles-Occupations of childhood-Their influ-

ence on our later life-Examples-Macaulay's boyhood-Miss

Mitford's early taste for poetry-Sir William Jones's division of

time-Sir Edward Coke's- -Lord Jeffrey's criticism on Sir Wil-

liam Jones-The charm of method explained by Coleridge-

Time is exactly what we make it-Half a dozen practical rules

-Example better then precept-Men who have known how to

use time,

CHAPTER II.

AIMS IN LIFE.

The young man on the threshold-What shall he be or do ?-Im-
portance of a right answer-Folly of undertaking a burden
beyond your strength-Do what you can, and what you wish to
do-The pursuit must be in harmony with your talents and
natural sympathies-Examples-Story of the peasant Vauque-
lin-Illustrations from the records of art-Chantrey the sculp.
tor-William Etty-Liking must not be mistaken for real

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