Steps to Success & Power

CHAPTER-12 “A little bit of patience often makes the sunshine come, And a little bit of love makes a very happy home; A little bit of hope makes a rainy day look gay, And a little bit of charity makes glad a weary way.”“Arletta’s pretty feet, glistening in the brook, made her the mother of […]

CHAPTER-11 “There are no longer any good chances for young men,” complained a law student to Daniel Webster. “There is always room at the top,” replied the great lawyer.No chance, no opportunities, in a land where many poor boys become rich men, where newsboys go to Congress, and where those born in the lowest stations

CHAPTER-10 Many a man is rich without money. Thousands of men with nothing in their pockets, and thousands without even a pocket, are rich.A man born with a good, sound constitution, a good stomach, a good heart and good limbs, and a pretty good headpiece, is rich.Good bones are better than gold, tough muscles than

CHAPTER-9 “We shan’t get much here,” whispered a lady to her companion, as John Murray blew out one of the two candles by whose light he had been writing when they asked him to contribute to some benevolent object. He listened to their story and gave one hundred dollars. “Mr. Murray, I am very agreeably

CHAPTER-8 “Friends and comrades,” said Pizarro, as he turned toward the south, after tracing with his sword upon the sand a line from east to west, “on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its

CHAPTER-7 “I was a mere cipher in that vast sea of human enterprise,” said Henry Bessemer, speaking of his arrival in London in 1831. Although but eighteen years old, and without an acquaintance in the city, he soon made work for himself by inventing a process of copying bas-reliefs on cardboard. His method was so

CHAPTER-6 “Colonel Crockett makes room for himself!” exclaimed a backwoods congressman in answer to the exclamation of the White House usher to “Make room for Colonel Crockett!” This remarkable man was not afraid to oppose the head of a great nation. He preferred being right to being president. Though rough, uncultured, and uncouth, Crockett was

CHAPTER-5 “Why do you lead such a solitary life?” asked a friend of Michael Angelo. “Art is a jealous mistress,” replied the artist; “she requires the whole man.” During his labours at the Sistine Chapel, according to Disraeli, he refused to meet any one, even at his own house.“That day we sailed westward, which was

CHAPTER-4 “I have here three teams that I want to get over to Staten Island,” said a boy of twelve one day in 1806 to the innkeeper at South Amboy, N. J. “If you will put us across, I’ll leave with you one of my horses in pawn, and if I don’t send you back

CHAPTER-3 “As well can the Prince of Orange pluck the stars from the sky, as bring the ocean to the wall of Leyden for your relief,” was the derisive shout of the Spanish soldiers when told that the Dutch fleet would raise that terrible four months’ siege of 1574. But from the parched lips of

CHAPTER-2 “Steady, men! Every man must die where he stands!” said Colin Campbell to the Ninety-third Highlanders at Balaklava, as an overwhelming force of Russian cavalry came sweeping down. “Ay, ay, Sir Colin! we’ll do that!” was the cordial response from men many of whom had to keep their word by thus obeying.“Bring back the

CHAPTER-1 “In a thousand cups of life,” says Emerson, “only one is the right mixture. The fine adjustment of the existing elements, where the well-mixed man is born with eyes not too dull, nor too good, with fire enough and earth enough, capable of receiving impressions from all things, and not too susceptible, then no