CHAPTER IV

OVER AND UNDERDOING

LEARN to do, without overdoing.
Too much striving for success is

as bad as too little.

Bishop Hall says: "Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."

"You have too much respect upon the world," Shakespeare tells us. "They lose it that do buy it with much care.'

If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. — FRANKLIN.

The only true conquests - those which awaken no regrets

are those obtained over

Do not cram books into your head until you crowd pleasant thinking out of it. A moderately informed man standing our ignorance. — NAfirmly on his two good legs is a much superior man to the wise professor who is unable to leave his bed.

"What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own. soul?" And what does it profit him if he shall become a multi-millionaire and lose his health of mind or body?

Success that costs more than it is worth is failure.

POLEON.

The occasion is

piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Make haste slowly. Be ambitious but not foolish.

Learn a few things and learn them well. He who grasps much holds little. Upon investigating the fund of information possessed by a great many young persons it has been found that the matter with it is the "smatter."

Herbert Spencer says the brains of precocious children cease to develop after a certain age, like a plant that fails to flower.

"Those unhappy children who are forced to rise too early in their classes are conceited all the forenoon of their lives and stupid all the afternoon," says Professor Huxley. "The keenness and vitality which should have been stored up for the sharp struggle of practical existence have been washed out of them by precocious mental debauchery, by bookgluttony and lesson-bibbing. Their faculties are worn out by the strain put upon their callow brains, and they are demoralized by worthless, childish triumphs before the real tasks of life begin."

Carlyle's words upon this subject are worth remembering: "The richer a nature, the harder and slower its develop