This boy was soon at the head of his class and the pride of Harrow.

The statue of that boy, Sir William Jones, stands to-day in St.Paul's Cathedral; for he lived to be the greatest Oriental scholar of Europe.
"What is the secret of success in business ?" asked a friend of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

"Secret! there is no secret about it," replied the commodore; "all you have to do is to attend to your business and go ahead." If you would adopt Vanderbilt's method, know your business, attend to it, and keep down expenses until your fortune is safe from business perils.
"Work or starve," is nature's motto,--and it is written on the stars and the sod alike,--starve mentally, starve morally, starve physically.

It is an inexorable law of nature that whatever is not used, dies.

"Nothing for nothing," is her maxim.