Leaving material comforts and advantages out of the question, what ambition can a man satisfy without money?
Take the successful politicians for instance, and it will be found that almost every one of them is rich.
This country is too full; there is scant room for the individual.

Only intellectual Titans can force their heads above the crowd, and, as a rule, they have not even then the money to take them higher.

If I had my life over again--and it is my advice to all young men of ability and ambition--I would leave the old country and settle in America or in one of the great colonies.

There, where the conditions are more elastic and the competition is not so cruel, a hard-working man of talent does not need to be endowed with fortune to enable him to rise to the top of the tree.
Well, my desire was to be accomplished, for as it chanced a younger brother of my father, who during his lifetime had never taken any notice of me, died and left me 750 pounds.

Seven hundred and fifty pounds! To me at that time it was colossal wealth, for it enabled us to rent some rooms in London, where I entered myself as a medical student at University College.
There is no need for me to dwell upon my college career, but if any one were to take the trouble to consult the old records he would find that it was sufficiently brilliant.