The Young Man's Counsellor: Or, Sketches and Illustrations of the Duties and Dangers of Young Men, Designed to Be a Guide to Success in This Life, and to Happiness in the Life Which Is to Come

Excerpt from The Young Man's Counsellor: Or, Sketches and Illustrations of the Duties and Dangers of Young Men, Designed to Be a Guide to Success in This Life, and to Happiness in the Life Which Is to Come

I love to look upon a young man. There is a hidden potency concealed within his breast which charms and pains me. I silently ask, what will that youth accomplish in the after-time of his life? Will he take rank with the benefactors or with the scourges of his race? Will he, erewhile, exhibit the patriotic virtue of Hampden and Washington, or the selfish craftiness of Benedict Arnold? If he have genius, will he consecrate it, like Milton and Montgomery, to humanity and religion; or, like Moore and Byron, to the polluted altars of passion? If he have mercantile skill, will he employ it, like Astor or Girard, to gratify his lust of wealth; or to elevate and bless humanity, like some of our living merchant princes?

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