He abstained from his wonted pursuits and pleasures--he indulged much in solitary and abstracted thought--he watched whole nights.

His friends wondered at the change, and inquired the cause.

"The trophies of Miltiades," said he, "will not suffer me to sleep." From these meditations, which are common to most men in the interval between an irregular youth and an aspiring manhood, he soon seems to have awakened with fixed objects and expanded views.

Once emerged from the obscurity of his birth, his success was rapid, for he possessed all the qualities which the people demanded in a leader--not only the talents and the courage, but the affability and the address.

He was an agreeable and boon companion-- he committed to memory the names of the humblest citizens--his versatility enabled him to be all things to all men.