CHAPTER VI.
WILL YOU PAY THE PRICE?
The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.
-- EMERSON.
All desire knowledge, but no one is willing to pay the price.
-- JUVENAL.
There is no royal path which leads to geometry.
-- EUCLID.
There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose.

A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of whatever sort.
-- T.

T.MUNGER.
Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; you have not a faculty of body, mind, or soul, whose law of improvement is not energy.
-- E.

B.HALL.
"We have but what we make, and every good Is locked by nature in a granite hand, Sheer labor must unclench." "Oh, if I could thus put a dream on canvas!" exclaimed an enthusiastic young artist, pointing to a most beautiful painting.

"Dream on canvas!" growled the master, "it is the ten thousand touches with the brush you must learn to put on canvas that make your dream." "There is but one method of attaining excellence," said Sydney Smith, "and that is hard labor." "If only Milton's imagination could have conceived his visions," says Waters, "his consummate industry alone could have carved the immortal lines which enshrine them.