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Little Things: The Elements of Success
A Book for Young Men
No Author or date, Circa 1850's.
A few years ago, a New York merchant advertised for a lad. A youth saw the advertisement, and called at the warehouse.
"Walk into the office, my lad," said the merchant; "I'll attend to you soon."
The boy seated himself in the office, and in due time the merchant appeared, and took a chair beside him. On sitting down, he observed a cigar in his hat.
"My boy," said he, "I want a smart, honest, faithful lad; but I see that you smoke cigars, and in my experience of many years, I have ever found cigar-smoking in lads to be connected with various other evil habits. You will not suit me."
Perhaps the youth thought the merchant was more particular than wise. But he, in common with all men of as much discernment of character as Lawrence, understood the drift of such small things as a cigar in a boy's hat. A straw shows the direction of the wind. So character is usually judged of by little things.
A man is very exact and earnest for the farthing that is his due; and we infer that he is penurious. Another is rude in the presence of ladies in the train, and we suppose that he is ill-bred. A third spells some common words erroneously in a letter, and we conclude that his education is deficient. In this way, we make minor affairs a test of character, often, and perhaps generally.
We might never know the true character of a governor or president, judged only by his great public acts. We must know something of them in the more private and every-day transactions of life, in order to understand them exactly.
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