“The trouble with a great many young men is that they have a wrong
conception of success. Large numbers imagine it lies in mere
money-making. Yet the average millionaire is not a happy or even a
contented man. He has been so engrossed from his youth in piling up
dollars that he has had no time for the cultivation of the higher
qualities of his mind and heart, in the exercise of which the only
true happiness is to be found. You may remember that Emerson said:
‘Happiness lies only in the triumph of principle.’
“Of course, a certain amount of money is a necessity, and more of
it enables one to enjoy many things which would be an impossibility
without it. I am not advising any young man not to do all he can in
a legitimate way to make money; but, if he is successful, he must be
careful to keep money his servant, and not let it become his master.