He used this sum to start him in his law studies, and thus, as Mr.Stoddard says, chopped his way to the bar.
It is said that the career of Benjamin Franklin is full of inspiration for any young man.

When he left school for good he was only twelve years of age.

At first he did little but read.

He soon found, however, that reading, alone, would not make him an educated man, and he proceeded to act upon this discovery at once.

At school he had been unable to understand arithmetic.