But if there be no instinct, or if it be weak or faint, one should choose cautiously along the line of his best adaptability and opportunity.

No one need doubt that the world has use for him.

True success lies in acting well your part, and this every one can do.

Better be a first-rate hod-carrier than a second-rate anything.
The world has been very kind to many who were once known as dunces or blockheads, after they have become very successful; but it was very cross to them while they were struggling through discouragement and misinterpretation.

Give every boy and girl a fair chance and reasonable encouragement, and do not condemn them because of even a large degree of downright stupidity; for many so-called good-for-nothing boys, blockheads, numskulls, dullards, or dunces, were only boys out of their places, round boys forced into square holes.
Wellington was considered a dunce by his mother.