I beg parents and preceptors, if
they approve my efforts, to lend their aid in attracting toward these
admonitions such consideration as their merit shall warrant, and I have
so endeavored to dispose the bitterness of practical advice as to both
somewhat cover its presence and gratify a youthful and adventurous
literary taste.
PRUDENCE IN SPEECH.
Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar;
Do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new hatched unfledged comrade
Give every man thine ear but few thy voice;
Take each man's counsel but reserve thy judgment.
--Shakspeare.
You live. To live is costly. Who will pay for it? Your
soul cries out "I." But how will you get the money? "Oh! I'll get
it!"--that is the confident cry of youth. The confidence oozes out as
life lengthens--and yet there are certain lines of action which, if
followed, in this bright land of liberty, are sure to result in the
accumulation of something for our old age.
THE MYSTERIOUS JUNIUS
one of the great exemplars in the matter of keeping a secret wrote to
his publisher: "Let all your views in life, therefore, be directed to a
solid, however moderate independence.
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