office may be used later in governing a city.

Train your mind through your work, whatever it is.

Study the lives of those who have succeeded. You will see that
they did whatever they did as well as they could.

Edison was an ordinary telegraph operator. But he was not
content with merely working as others worked. He worked very
hard, devised means to make more valuable the instruments of his
employers. Soon he was an employer himself, and what is far
better than being an employer, he was a creator of new ideas and
a benefactor of the world. ----

Intelligent readers will not misinterpret this advice to mean
that they should OVERWORK themselves, or work regardless of
their own physical welfare.

The right course is this:

Do as much as you can in the present, without drawing on your
future reserves.

Don't work all night and then go on the next day. Such effort
impairs permanently your store of vitality, and that vitality is
your capital.

But never form the habit of neglecting work, of shamming and
lying instead of achieving honestly.