CHAPTER IV.
OUT OF PLACE.
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness.
-- EMERSON.
The art of putting the right man in the right place is perhaps the first in the science of government, but the art of finding a satisfactory position for the discontented is the most difficult.
-- TALLEYRAND.
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division.
-- ADDISON.
I was born to other things.
-- TENNYSON.
How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail.
-- SHELLEY.
"But I'm good for something," pleaded a young man whom a merchant was about to discharge for his bluntness.

"You are good for nothing as a salesman," said his employer.

"I am sure I can be useful," said the youth.

"How?
Tell me how." "I don't know, sir, I don't know." "Nor do I," said the merchant, laughing at the earnestness of his clerk.

"Only don't put me away, sir, don't put me away.