If you put your manhood into your labor, you will soon be given something better to do.
This question of a right aim in life has become exceedingly perplexing in our complicated age.

It is not a difficult problem to solve when one is the son of a Zulu or the daughter of a Bedouin.

The condition of the savage hardly admits of but one choice; but as one rises higher in the scale of civilization and creeps nearer to the great centers of activity, the difficulty of a correct decision increases with its importance.

In proportion as one is hard pressed in competition is it of the sternest necessity for him to choose the right aim, so as to be able to throw the whole of his energy and enthusiasm into the struggle for success.

The dissipation of strength or hope is fatal to prosperity even in the most attractive field.
Gladstone says there is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body, or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted.
"Blessed is he who has found his work," says Carlyle.