"Heaven Lies About Us in Our Infancy"--The Great History Written by
Thiers, and Its Central Thought--The Impressibility of Youth--Much Can
Be Accomplished in Youth--Alexander, Cæsar, Pompey, Hannibal, Scipio,
Napoleon, Charles XII, Alexander Hamilton, Shelley, Keats, Bryant--Youth
Our Italy and Greece, full of Gods and Temples--Edmund Burke--Rochefoucauld
--Chesterfield--Lord Lytton's Love of Youth--Shortness of Youthful Griefs
--Hannah More--Sir Walter Raleigh's Wise Remark--The Extraordinary
Expectations of Youth--Dr. Watts--Story of the Alpena--Lord Bacon's
Summing up of the Differences Between Youth and Age--Introduction to
the Hard-Pan Series. Page 62.


Prudence in Speech.

Need of Money--Difficulty of Getting It--Testimony of the Closest
Mouthed Man Who Perhaps Ever Lived--"No Man Can Be Happy or Even Honest
Without a Moderate Independence"--You Find Yourself Behind a
Counter--The Little Boy's Shoes Wear Out at the Toe--They are
Therefore Copper-plated--The Young Man's Common Sense Gives Way at the
Tip of His Tongue--Difficulties in the Way of a Boy Who "Blabs"--A Man
Who Is "Pumped" Like the Secretary of the Treasury Must Have Practiced
Silence All His Life--Story of the Barber of King Midas--Beware of the
First Error--How Things Leak out--Put a Copper-Toe on Your Tongue. Page
74.


Courtesy.

Courtesy Rests on a Deep Foundation--He Who is Naturally Polite is
Naturally Moral--You Wish to Have Your Customers Brighten up--Brighten