Excerpt from Success in Life: A Book for Young Men It is no less the purpose of the following pages to guide the young reader in the choice of an honourable and worthy aim for which to strive. Diligence, perseverance, firmness, and untiring self-denial, may, after all, be so directed as to be a curse to their owner instead of a blessing. The haste to be rich, and the eagerness to amass wealth, have in all ages, -and never more than in our own day - proved a prolific source of selfishness, vice, and misery. The love of money has too clearly proved itself the root of all evil, while the divine injunction has been entirely for gotten With all thy getting, get wisdom and get under. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.