nation. He preferred being right to
being president. Though rough, uncultured, and uncouth, Crockett was a
man of great courage and determination.

"Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify," said James A. Garfield;
"but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young
man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for
himself. In all my acquaintance I have never known a man to be drowned
who was worth the saving."

Garfield was the youngest member of the House of Representatives when
he entered, but he had not been in his seat sixty days before his
ability was recognized and his place conceded. He stepped to the front
with the confidence of one who belonged there. He succeeded because
all the world in concert could not have kept him in the background, and
because when once in the front he played his part with an intrepidity
and a commanding ease that were but the outward evidences of the
immense reserves of energy on which it was in his power to draw.

"Take the place and attitude which belong to you," says Emerson, "and
all men acquiesce. The world must be just. It leaves every man with
profound unconcern to set his own rate."

"A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources
virtually has them," says Livy.

Richard Arkwright, the thirteenth child, in a hovel, with no education,
no chance, gave his spinning model to the world, and put a scepter in
England's right hand such as the queen never wielded.

Solario, a wandering gypsy tinker, fell deeply in love with the
daughter of the painter Coll' Antonio del Fiore, but was told that no
one but a painter as good as the father should wed the maiden. "Will
you give me ten years to learn to paint, and so entitle myself to the
hand of your daughter?" Consent was given, Coll' Antonio thinking that
he would never be troubled further by the gypsy.

About the time that the ten years were to end the king's sister showed
Coll' Antonio a Madonna and Child, which the painter extolled in terms
of the highest praise. Judge of his surprise on learning that Solario
was the artist. His great determination gained him his bride.

Louis Philippe said he was the only sovereign in Europe fit to govern,
for he could black his own boots.

When asked to name his family coat-of-arms, a self-made President of
the United States replied, "A pair of shirtsleeves."

It is not the men who have inherited most, except it be in nobility o