Be more prompt, more energetic, more thorough, more polite than your predecessor or fellow-workmen.

Study your business, devise new modes of operation, be able to give your employer points.

The art lies not in giving satisfaction merely, not in simply filling your place, but in doing better than was expected, in surprising your employer; and the reward will be a better place and a larger salary.
"He that hath a trade," says Franklin, "hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor.

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees." _Follow your bent._ You cannot long fight successfully against your aspirations.

Parents, friends, or misfortune may stifle and suppress the longings of the heart, by compelling you to perform unwelcome tasks; but, like a volcano, the inner fire will burst the crusts which confine it and pour forth its pent-up genius in eloquence, in song, in art, or in some favorite industry.