How to Speak and Write Correctly

<p>The examples of these men are incentives to action. Poverty thrust them forward instead of keeping them back.</p><p> </p><p>Therefore if you are poor make your circumstances a means to an end. Have ambition keep a goal in sight and bend every energy to reach that goal.</p><p> </p><p>A story is told of Thomas Carlyle the day he attained the highest honor the literary world could confer upon him when he was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University.</p><p> </p><p>After his installation speech in going through the halls he met a student seemingly deep in study.</p>