Don’t be afraid of killing yourself with overwork.It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty.They die sometimes,but it is because they quit work at six in the evening,and do not go home until two in the morning.It’s the interval that kills, my son.The work gives you an appetite for your meals;it lends solidity to your slumbers;it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday.There are young men who do not work,but the world is not proud of them. It does not kn...

Don’t be afraid of killing yourself with overwork.It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty.They die sometimes,but it is because they quit work at six in the evening,and do not go home until two in the morning.It’s the interval that kills, my son.The work gives you an appetite for your meals;it lends solidity to your slumbers;it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday.There are young men who do not work,but the world is not proud of them. It does not kn...