Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state--
Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense:
Then perseverance, never to decline
The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
And firmness never to be drawn away
By any passion from that noble prey--
By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.