Having afterwards been appointed governor of a turbulent mountain district, he succeeded, by firm and just governments in reducing it to a condition of comparative good order and security.

Even the bandits of the country respected him.

Being arrested one day in the mountains by a body of outlaws, he mentioned his name, when they at once offered to escort him in safety wherever he chose.
It has been the same in other countries.

Vattel, the author of the 'Rights of Nations,' was a practical diplomatist, and a first-rate man of business.

Rabelais was a physician, and a successful practitioner; Schiller was a surgeon; Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderon, Camoens, Descartes, Maupertius, La Rochefoucauld, Lacepede, Lamark, were soldiers in the early part of their respective lives.
In our own country, many men now known by their writings, earned their living by their trade.