OR,

HINTS ON SUCCESS IN LIFE.

BY

WILLIAM MATHEWS, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY

OF CHICAGO.

Fungar vice cotis, acutum

Roddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi.

HORACE.

Do not shun this maxim as commonplace. On the contrary, take the closest
heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are
yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
-ARTHUR HELPS.

FIFTY-FOURTH THOUSAND.

CHICAGO:

S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.
1883.