The herald., 1895-02-18
APHoRIsMs FOR YOUNG MEN
NEW YORK WORLD


| Wander at random no longer Alas! You
| have no time left Hasten towards the
goal. Do not 1atter and deceive yourself
Come to your own aid while you may, II you
have kindness for YOURSELF Meditatons Of
| the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Ia.
| That is the text, and what follows NJ
written by young porson acting undef,
the doctrinal but not the verbal inspira-
ton of person, young but not quite sol
young; diffused, but not quite so diff
fuse; doubter, but not quite a doubter.
Do not forget that you have at least
two of the three blessings which Herr
Schopenhauer called truly great-youth,
health and freedom.
Do not fancy that talent counts for SO
very much in the world. Persistence
without intellect is better than intellect
without persistence.
Do not spend your time in sitting
about, talking of ways and means of get
| ting fame or money
| Cultivate the habit of thinking and
Keeping your thoughts to yourself If
| they are of the proper kind for books.
| write them down and sell them If thev
are for the making of money, coin them
! into action.
| Do not be afraid that somebody will
think poorly of your manners if YOU upset
| things in your haste.
Do not let women beguile you. Don't
belong to fashionable clubs. Don't con-
sort with men who have lots of leisure
| great deal of money.
| Do not indulge in day-dreaming,
Keep hard at it every waking hour. and
when the time comes for sleep go to bed
and stay there until it is time to get at it
again.
Remember that working out a fixed
purpose in life is just as amusing as drink
ing champagne and fox-hunting.
Get fixed purpose and never deviate
from it. Fix your eyes on a certain point
and keep pushing. for that point.
There is nothing so foolish as work
without fixed purpose.
Don't fancy that youth is the only time
in which there is any amusement to be
got out of life. In reality it is the timee
when the most evanescent pleasures only
are to be had and that at scandalous
prices.
When you see cleverer or more sue
cessful man than you are remember that
in all time and all eternity and all space
there never was and never will be another
human being exactly like you. You are
unique.
Never forget that the whole universe for
you revolves about you as center. Ii
changes its center of gravity as you move
about.
Don't forget that the present is nothing.
that it has ceased to exist as soon as it il
born; that the future is everything Rf
If you are married, don't fancy that il
is your expensive family that is keeping
you down. q
If you are single, always think that it,,
you had a family it would keep you down. Y
Don't waste YOUR time in REASONING
| about death and eternity. good deal o
that sort of thing has been done already
and not one of the ten thousand bette4
minds than yours has been able to repot
progress.
Don't have your eyes fixed so firmly a
the goal that you forget to do things neir
| at hand that will push you towards it.
Do not get the blues. They are a SIRE
sign that you are idling.
No busy man has time to think about
his misfortunes.
Remember what Cavour used to say
when the game went against him: Pa
tience-and shuttle the cards.
| Do not take yourself too seriously. Re
| member that the universe revolves ABOUT
himself for every man and not for Nou
alone.
Do not talk or think about what You
! have done. That is sure sign of decay.
| The man who does it is food for wot rln,.
already, although Others may not discsOyr
| it for some years.
| Do not be enthusiastic about anything
except what you are doing yourself. This
| uOcS llOt iicdil tildt you diO W NC HdIlO
or ungenerous. But enthusiasm is N
| explosive. 1t should be saved for a Sc
| rious purpose.
| Don't be afraid because your pockets are
nearly empty. Only handful of the
| hundreds of millions on this earth are
| forehanded more than one meal.
! Do not fancy that your money and your
social position are aids to doing things
that are worth while. In youth they are
as dangerous as too much Jelly cake.
| Do not despise, either in manner or in
| fact any human being. Learn all you
| can from every one, even the meanest and
! remember that your own weak points are
Just as weak as anybodys else
And above all be good humored and keep
| your temper. Anger is weakness, the
| weakness of fatuous folly. And don't
initiate the weaknesses of great men un-
der the mistaken impression that they are
| the causes of greatness. A great man with
| great whiskers is great man in spite of
great whiskers.