Le Brum, when a boy, drew with a piece of charcoal on the walls of the house.

Pope wrote excellent verses at fourteen.

Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, composed at sixteen a tract on the conic sections.
Professor Agassiz was so enthusiastic in his work and so loved the fishes, the fowl and the cattle that it is said these creatures would die for him to give him their skeletons.

His father wanted him to fit for commercial life, but the fish haunted him day and night.
Confucius said that "he was so eager in the pursuit of knowledge that he forgot his food;" and that, "in the joy of its attainment, he forgot his sorrows;" and that "he did not even perceive that old age was coming on." "That boy tries to make himself useful," said an employer of the errand boy, George W.Childs.It is this trying to be useful and helpful that promotes us in life.
Once, when Mr.Harvey, an accomplished mathematician, was in a bookseller's shop, he saw a poor lad of mean appearance enter and write something on a slip of paper and give it to the proprietor.

On inquiry he found this was a poor deaf boy, Kitto, who afterward became one of the most noted Biblical scholars in the world, and who wrote his first book in the poor-house.