Book 2 — Success Maxims
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If I were a cobbler, it would be my pride The best of all cobblers to be; If I were a tinker, no tinker beside Should mend an old kettle like me. —Old Song.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.—Victor Hugo.
Every man stamps his own value upon himself, and we are great or little according to our own will.—Samuel Smiles.
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth of the power and will to succeed.—Whipple.
As men in a crowd instinctively make room for one who would force his way through it, so mankind makes way for one who rushes toward an object beyond them.—Dwight.
There can be no doubt that the captains of industry to-day, using that term in its broadest sense, are men who began life as poor boys.—Seth Low.
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long, And so make life, death and the vast forever one grand, sweet song. —Charles Kingsley.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.—Franklin.
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness.—Emerson.
A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.—Bacon.
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine.... Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and sends us home to add one stroke of faithful work.—Emerson.
STATESMEN
Thomas B. Reed
William Boyd Allison
George F. Hoar
Elihu Root
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Cabot Lodge
Grover Cleveland
(Copyright, 1903, by Rockwood, N.Y.)
John Hay
Richard Olney
CANADIANS OF NOTE
Sir T. Shaughnessy
Sir Wm. Van Horne
Lord Strathcona
Simon N. Parent
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Robt. L. Borden
A. G. Blair
Jas. Loudon
Goldwin Smith
CANADIANS OF NOTE
Wm. Peterson
George W. Ross
Dr. Wm. Osler
Lord Mount Stephen
Sir Geo. Drummond
George A. Cox
Timothy Eaton
William S. Fielding
Charles Fitzpatrick
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY
Charles H. Cramp
John B. Herreschoff
Charles M. Hays
Lewis Nixon
Andrew Carnegie
(Copyright, 1900, by Rockwood, N. Y.)
Charles R. Flint
E. G. Acheson
J. H. Patterson
Robert C. Clowry
MANUFACTURERS
C. W. Post
John W. Wheeler
Phill. D. Armour
A. G. Spalding
Albert A. Pope
Charles Eastman
Hugh T. Chisholm
Theo. L. De Vinne
W. L. Douglass
TRANSPORTATION LEADERS
August Belmont
Clement Acton Griscom
Herbert H. Vreeland
George Gould
J. J. Hill
M. E. Ingalls
A. J. Cassatt
Geo. H. Daniels
George F. Baer
(Copyright, 1901, by F. Gutekunst)
INVENTORS
Alex. G. Bell
Santos Dumont
Wm. Marconi
Chas. F. Brush
Thomas Alva Edison
Peter C. Hewitt
John P. Holland
(Copyright, 1900, by Rockwood, N.Y.)
Hiram Stevens Maxim
Geo. Westinghouse
(Copyright, 1902, by Gessford, N.Y.)
MERCHANTS
Henry Siegel
Nathan Strauss
F. W. Woolworth
Marshall Field
John Wanamaker
Sir Thomas Lipton
Edward Cooper
Robt. L. Ogden
W. F. King
FINANCIERS
Henry Clews
Charles Tyson Yerkes
Lyman Gage
John D. Rockefeller
J. Pierpont Morgan
(Copyright, 1902, by Pach, New York)
Russell Sage
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Hetty Green
William Waldorf Astor
POLITICAL LEADERS
Hazen S. Pingree
William Jennings Bryan
Thomas C. Platt
Sam’l M. Jones
Marcus A. Hanna
Arthur Pue Gorman
Tom L. Johnson
Carter Harrison
Jos. W. Folk
LAWYERS AND JURISTS
Wm. Travers Jerome
John W. Griggs
Frank S. Black
Alton Brooks Parker
Melville W. Fuller
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Joseph McKenna
James B. Dill
Fred. R. Coudert
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
Richmond P. Hobson
Joseph Wheeler
Fred Funston
Adna R. Chaffee
Nelson A. Miles
Wm. R. Shafter
Winfield S. Schley
George Dewey
Robley D. Evans
EXPLORERS AND TRAVELLERS
H. Nansen
Henry M. Stanley
A. H. Savage Landor
Walter Wellman
Robert Edwin Peary
Dr. Frederick A. Cook
E. Burton Holmes
Evelyn V. Baldwin
(Copyright, 1902, by Rockwood, New York)
Sven Hedin
EDUCATORS
Jacob G. Schurman
W. H. P. Faunce
Nicholas M. Butler
E. Benjamin Andrews
William T. Harris
Woodrow Wilson
Arthur T. Hadley
H. M. McCracken
Charles Wm. Eliot
(Copyright, 1899, by Notman Photo. Company, Boston)
EDITORS
Henry M. Alden
Albert Shaw
George H. Lorimer
James M. Buckley
Edward Bok
Richard W. Gilder
Henry Watterson
George Harvey
Whitelaw Reid
(Copyright, 1892, by Rockwood, N.Y.)
PUBLISHERS
Louis Klopsch
Isaac K. Funk
John Brisben Walker
W. R. Hearst
S. S. McClure
Joseph Pulitzer
Frank A. Munsey
Edward E. Higgins
F. N. Doubleday
ORATORS
Champ Clark
Frank W. Gunsaulus
A. J. Beveridge
J. P. Dolliver
(Copyright, by Francis B. Johnston)
Joseph H. Choate
John Warwick Daniel
Chauncey M. Depew
Carl Schurz
W. Bourke Cockran
MUSICIANS
Reginald DeKoven
Maud Powell
Leonora Jackson
Victor Herbert
(Copyright, by Aime Dupont, N. Y.)
John Phillip Sousa
Maurice Grau
(Copyright, by Aime Dupont, N.Y.)
Franz Kneisel
Theodore Thomas
Walter Damrosch
(Copyright, by Aime Dupont, N.Y.)
SINGERS
David Bispham
Adelina Patti
Lillian Nordica
Jean de Reszke
Emma Eames
Edouard de Reszke
Zelie de Lussan
Emma Calvé
(Copyright, by E. W. Histed, 304 Fifth Avenue. N. Y.)
Marcella Sembrich
ACTORS
J. K. Hackett
John Drew
William Gillette
Richard Mansfield
Henry Irving
E. H. Sothern
Joseph Jefferson
William Crane
(Copyright, 1899, by E. Chickering, Boston)
Nat C. Goodwin
ACTRESSES
Ethel Barrymore
(Copyright, 1901, by Burr McIntosh)
Maude Adams
May Irwin
(Courtesy of Colliers Weekly)
Mrs. Leslie Carter
Eleonora Duse
Mrs. Lillie Langtry
Viola Allen
Julia Marlowe
Virginia Harned
ORGANIZERS AND LECTURERS
Mary Lowe Dickinson
Mrs. C. Westover Alden
Clara Barton
Herbert Hungerford
Samuel Gompers
Francis E. Clark
E. Thompson-Seton
John Mitchell
Thos. Dixon, Jr.
(Copyright, 1901, by Rockwood, New York)
ILLUSTRATORS, DECORATORS AND SCULPTORS
Charles Mente
Alice Barber Stephens
Henry Merwin Shrady
T. De Thulstrup
Edwin Austin Abbey
(Copyright, by Elliott and Fry, London)
W. De Leftwich Dodge
Frederic Remington
Charles Dana Gibson
F. Wellington Ruckstuhl
CARTOONISTS
Louis Dalrymple
(Courtesy of Pirie McDonald)
R. F. Outcault
(Courtesy of Pirie McDonald)
T. S. Allen
Sydney B. Griffin
(Courtesy of Pirie McDonald)
C. G. Bush
(Courtesy of Pirie McDonald)
Frederick B. Opper
Homer Davenport
Carl E. Schultze
Eugene Zimmerman
HUMORISTS
George V. Hobart
Simeon Ford
Elizabeth M. Gilmer “Dorothy Dix”
Melville De L. Landon “Eli Perkins”
(Copyright by Rockwood, N.Y.)
Samuel L. Clemens “Mark Twain”
George Ade
John Kendrick Bangs
Marshall P. Wilder
Finley Peter Dunne “Mr. Dooley”
JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS
Stewart E. White
Owen Wister
David G. Phillips
Hamlin Garland
William T. Stead
C. G. D. Roberts
Vance Thompson
Richard Harding Davis
Stephen Bonsal
POETS
Richard LeGallienne
(Copyright, 1898, Rockwood, New York)
Robert Mackay
John Burroughs
James W. Riley
(Copyright, by Rockwood, New York)
Joaquin Miller
(Copyright, 1902, by Rockwood, New York)
Henry Van Dyke
(Copyright, 1902, by Rockwood, New York)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Copyright, 1901, by Theo. C Marceau)
Edwin Markham
(Copyright, 1899, by Gessford and Van Brunt, New York)
Thos. Bailey Aldrich
(Copyright, 1903, by J. E. Purdy, Boston)
AUTHORS
Charles Major
Lew Wallace
(Copyright, 1900, by Nicholson Lacey, Crawfordville, Ind.)
Thos. Nelson Page
Rudyard Kipling
F. Marion-Crawford
Wm. Dean Howells
Geo. W. Cable
(Copyright, 1903, by Rockwood, N.Y.)
James Lane Allen
Winston Churchill
NOVELISTS
Mrs. Pearl Craigie
Mrs. Mary Wilkins-Freeman
Sara Orne Jewett
Amelia Edith Barr
Mrs.
Gertrude Atherton
Mrs. Burton Harrison
(Copyright, by Rockwood, New York)
Mrs. E. S. P. Ward
Anna Katherine Greene
Frances H. Burnett
REFORMERS
Frederick Booth Tucker
Anthony Comstock
(Copyright, by Rockwood, New York)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(Copyright, 1902, by Rockwood, New York)
William R. George
Geo. Thorndike Angell
Susan B. Anthony
Elbridge T. Gerry
Wilbur Fisk Crafts
Charles Henry Parkhurst
PHILANTHROPISTS
Mrs. Leland Stanford
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst
Mrs. Theo. Roosevelt
(Copyright, 1903, by Underwood and Underwood)
Darius Ogden Mills
(Copyright, 1902, by Rockwood, New York)
Helen Miller Gould
D. K. Pearsons
Mrs. Henry Codman Potter
Anson Phelps Stokes
Mrs. Russell Sage
DIVINES
Theo. L. Cuyler
Edward Everett Hale
(Copyright, 1900, by Rockwood. N. Y.)
Bishop J. H. Vincent
Bishop H. C. Potter
Bishop Wm. Taylor
B. Fay Mills
(Copyright, 1889, by B. Fay Mills)
Russell Conwell
Lyman Abbott
(Copyright, 1893, by Rockwood, N.Y.)
Robert Collyer