The Shortest Way To Do Many Things

So Much Does The Moral Health Depend Upon The Moral Atmosphere That Is Breathed, And So Great Is The Influence Daily Exercised By Parents Over Their Children By Living A Life Before Their Eyes, That Perhaps The Best System Of Parental Instruction Might Be Summed Up In These Two Words: 'improve Thyself.'

Thus The Brave And Aspiring Life Of One Man Lights A Flame In The Minds Of Others Of Like Faculties And Impulse; And Where There Is Equally Vigorous Effort, Like Distinction And Success Will Almost Surely Follow. Thus The Chain Of Example Is Carried Down Through Time In An Endless Succession Of Links--admiration Exciting Imitation, And Perpetuating The True Aristocracy Of Genius.

Many Are The Lives Of Men Unwritten, Which Have Nevertheless As Powerfully Influenced Civilization And Progress As The More Fortunate Great Whose Names Are Recorded In Biography. Even The Humblest Person, Who Sets Before His Fellows An Example Of Industry, Sobriety, And Upright Honesty Of Purpose In Life, Has A Present As Well As A Future Influence Upon The Well-being Of His Country; For His Life And Character Pass Unconsciously Into The Lives Of Others, And Propagate Good Example For All Time To Come.

The Path Of Success In Business Is Invariably The Path Of Common-sense. Nothwithstanding All That Is Said About "lucky Hits," The Best Kind Of Success In Every Man's Life Is Not That Which Comes By Accident. The Only "good Time Coming" We Are Justified In Hoping For Is That Which We Are Capable Of Making For Ourselves.

It Is A Mistake To Suppose That Men Succeed Through Success; They Much Oftener Succeed Through Failures. Precept, Study, Advice, And Example Could Never Have Taught Them So Well As Failure Has Done.