“Many rich men are the slaves of their own wealth, and their sons,
growing up without a purpose in life, never know what real living is.
I knew what poverty was when I was a young man, and few have suffered
from it more than I. Yet now I am thankful for it, because it made
me work. To live, we must work, and one must work to live. It is not
birth, nor money, nor a college education, that makes a man; it is
work. It has brought me commercial success. I am a practical man, yet I
can never express too earnestly my thankfulness that I learned from my
good mother to set up usefulness as my standard of success—usefulness
to others as well as to myself.”