If a man enters a profession simply because his grandfather made a great name in it, or his mother wants him to, with no love or adaptability for it, it were far better for him to be a day laborer.

In the humbler work, his intelligence may make him a leader; in the other career he might do as much harm as a boulder rolled from its place upon a railroad track, a menace to the next express.
Lowell said: "It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not, that has strewn history with so many broken purposes, and lives left in the rough." "The age has no aversion to preaching as such," said Phillips Brooks, "it may not listen to your preaching." But though it may not listen to your preaching, it will wear your boots, or buy your flour, or see stars through your telescope.

It has a use for every person, and it is his business to find out what that use is.
The following advertisement appeared several times in a paper without bringing a letter: "WANTED .-- Situation by a Practical Printer, who is competent to take charge of any department in a printing and publishing house.

Would accept a professorship in any of the academies.
Has no objection to teach ornamental painting and penmanship, geometry, trigonometry, and many other sciences.

Has had some experience as a lay preacher.