Success (Second Edition)

n all that the natural man desires: the opportunity of exercising his activities to the full; the sense of power; the feeling that

ction of society abuses the ambitions or the morals of the other, all worship equally at the same shrine. No man really wants to spend his whole life as a reporter, a clerk, a subaltern,

is a constitutional temperament bestowed on the recipient by the gods. And yet you may have all the gifts of the fairies and fail utterly. M

of free will. You cannot make the genius, but you can either improve or destro

ecious gifts will have both

Health, and perhaps the greatest of these is judgment. These are the three pillars whic

a jewel: the capacity to read the hearts of men; to draw an inexhaustible fountain of wisdom from every particle of experience in the past, and turn the current of this knowledge into the dynamic action of the future. Genius goes to the heart of a matter like an arrow from a

ge and to use it. The opinions of men and the movement of markets

accompanied by industry. The mill must have grist on wh

idity of the intellect or in the train of thought. "He who would be C?sar anywhere," says Kiplin

industrious and idle apprentice point a moral, but they do not tell a true tale. The real trouble about industry is to apply it in the right direction-and it is therefore the servant of judgment. The tru

out health everything is difficult. Who can exercise a sound judgment if he is feeling irrita

o succeed who does not work his body in moderation. The danger of the athlete is to believe that in kicking a goal he has won the game of life. His object is no longer to be fit for

e career of sport leads only to

f their physical powers. At the end the whole thing is revealed as vanity. Play tennis or golf once a day and you m

he night before is not worth next morning's headache. Practical success alone makes early middle-age the

not influence, but brains and money combined are power. And fame, the

o the man or woman whom ambition stirs to make a success of life. The dominions of the British Empire abolished long ago the privileges which

rn into Cabinets; the ladder of education is rapidly reaching a perfection which e

an be improved, industry can be acquired, health can be attained by those who will take th