Besides, there was a moral grandeur in his humble achievements which was more worthy of consideration than the mere worldly success he had obtained.

Motives determine the character of deeds.

That a boy of thirteen should display so much enterprise and energy was a great thing; but that it should be displayed from pure, unselfish devotion to his mother was a vastly greater thing.

Many great achievements are morally insignificant, while many of which the world never hears mark the true hero.
Our hero was not satisfied with what he had done, and far from relinquishing his interesting and profitable employment, his ambition suggested new and wider fields of success.

As one ideal, brilliant and glorious in its time, was reached, another more brilliant and more glorious presented itself, and demanded to be achieved.