Settle it in your mind. Success in life depends fully as much if not more upon them than upon talents. I have no right to prescribe on such a subject where I myself excell not at all. The first respects company. A man, a young man especially is judged by the company he keeps.
Much company is bad any how.
The next respects amusements. They are no amusements to such as are much at their books. They do not exercise the body enough. And some of them are so intimately connected with gambling that they in fact always, or at any rate generally, lead to it. Never seek to know how to play cards, nor allow yourself on any occasion to be enticed to take part in a game.