Chapter VII: Book TWO: Men and Women Who Have Achieved Eminence

Success Maxims

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.

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

STATESMEN]

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

CANADIANS OF NOTE]

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

CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY]

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

MANUFACTURERS]

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_)

TRANSPORTATION LEADERS]

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._)

INVENTORS]

Henry Siegel

Nathan Strauss

F. W. Woolworth

Marshall Field

John Wanamaker

Sir Thomas
Lipton

Edward Cooper

Robt. L. Ogden

W. F. King

MERCHANTS]

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

FINANCIERS]

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

POLITICAL LEADERS]

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

LAWYERS AND JURISTS]

Richmond P. Hobson

Joseph Wheeler

Fred Funston

Adna R. Chaffee

Nelson A. Miles

Wm. R. Shafter

Winfield S. Schley

George Dewey

Robley D. Evans

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS]

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

EXPLORERS AND TRAVELLERS]

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_)

EDUCATORS]

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._)

EDITORS]

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

PUBLISHERS]

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

ORATORS]

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._)

MUSICIANS]

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

SINGERS]

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

ACTORS]

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

ACTRESSES]

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_)

ORGANIZERS AND LECTURERS]

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

ILLUSTRATORS, DECORATORS AND SCULPTORS]

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

CARTOONISTS]

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”

HUMORISTS]

Stewart E. White

Owen Wister

David G. Phillips

Hamlin Garland

William T. Stead

C. G. D. Roberts

Vance Thompson

Richard Harding
Davis

Stephen Bonsal

JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS]

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_)

POETS]

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

AUTHORS]

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

NOVELISTS]

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

REFORMERS]

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

PHILANTHROPISTS]

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

DIVINES]