Take Diseases One from Another. Page 144.

On The Road.

Natural Depression--Certainty of Its Discontinuance--The Best Salesmen
Have Been Very Soft-Hearted on Their Early Trips--Entering the
Town--Riding One Block for Half a Dollar--A Poor Meal--Getting Your
Wind--Planning the Charge--Canvassing Yourself--What Is the Almost
Limitless Power of Persuasion?--Abraham Lincoln--The Whisky Which Made
Generals Win Battles was the Kind of Whisky He Was in Search of--Your
Dress--Your Entrance at Your Customer's Place--Your Speed in Getting
Started--Your Ease after the Start Is Made--Never Stop the
Customer--Your Perfect Accuracy as to Men and Places--Story of a
Meteoric Salesman--Trouble of Putting a Stop to his Flight--Your Supper
Tastes Good--The Men of Cold Exterior--Stay Out but Do not Stay Up--How
to Get Vim and Sparkle--Extraordinary Value of a Man Who Can "Place
Goods." Page 152.

Examples.

The Tracks of Giants--Napoleonic Miracles--Webster and Astor--George
Peabody--Giving Away Eight Millions of Dollars--Stewart--Andrew
Johnson--Barnum and Stanford--Ulysses S. Grant--Commodore
Vanderbilt--Elihu Burritt--Edgar Poe--Greeley, Chase, Garfield and
William Tecumseh Sherman--Tennyson--Robert E. Lee--Pickett's Charge at
Gettysburg--James Gordon Bennett--Carlyle and Victor Hugo--Garibaldi
--Agassiz, Humboldt, Proctor, Seward, Farragut, Nelson, Abercrombie,
Joseph E. Johnston, Longstreet, and Fifty Others--The Habit of Riding Over
Obstacles--Herodotus, Seneca and Franklin on the Power of Example--Christ
Never Wrote a Tract--The System of Redoubling the Effort and Coming out,
after one Victory, Ahead after Reckoning all Losses. Page 164.

Man.

Shakspeare's Eulogy, just as He Penned It--Emerson--A Columbus of the
Skies--Carlyle's Panegyric--Whately--Man's Faults--Horace Man and
Pascal--The Poet Cowley and Boileau--Fallacy of their Scoldings as
Applied to all Humankind--What Is Man?--Plato's Answer--Addison's
Answer--Burke's Answer--Adam Smith's Answer--Buffon's Failure to Make a
Satisfactory Answer--Plutarch's Answer--"The Proper Study of Mankind is
Man"--Henry Giles and John Ruskin--The Wonderful Instrument Called the
Hand--The Violin Slave--Man's Opportunities--What God has Said of His
Children--The Beautiful Language in Which It is Written--Nobility of Our
Destiny--A Stinging Epigram. Page 175.

Woman.

The Hand That Made Woman Fair Made Her Good--Wordsworth's Beautiful
lines to His Wife--"She Was a Phantom o