INDEX.

Accuracy, enamored of, 273.

Acts, " our angels are," 303.

Adams, J. Q., his punctuality, 69,130.

Addison on luck, 330.

Aesop monument erected to, 28.

Agassiz. Louis, too great to make money, 219; power of observation,

284.

Age, how to retard it, 370; its enthusiasm,184.

Alcohol, Dr. Richardson on, 364.

Andersen, Hans Christian, 26.

Andrew, John A., his promptness, 122.

Androcles and the lion, 403.

Angelo, Michael, 80; his industry, 234,242, 380; his study of anatomy,

284; his statue of snow, 302.

An iron will, 55.

Anne, Empress of Russia, and her snow palace, 385.

Annihilation, working for, 303.

Anxiety, a disease, 141, 143.

Apelles, his goddess of beauty, 155.

Aquetil and Bonaparte, 329.

Ariosto and his persistence, 353.

Aristocracy, nature's, 247

Arkwright, Richard, 79; his industry, 244.

Armour, Philip, his career, 14.

Arnold, Benedict, his dying vision, 409.

Art and corruption, 226.

Arthur, Chester A., his politeness, 151

Aspiration, 375.

Astor, J. J., a failure, 79, 99, 200, 226.

Audubon, his persistency, 245, 351.

BANCROFT, his perseverance, 342.

Bankruptcy, 248.

Barnum, P. T., 51; and the American

Museum, 324.

Barrows, Isaac, 87.

Basle, the Monk, his great politeness, 148,

Bauer, General, 328.

Baxter, Richard, on saving time, 69.

Be brief, 372.

Beecher, H. W., and "the dew-drop," 292; on defeat, 307 ; his

cheerfulness,138; his tact, 197; determination, 242; on aspiration, 378,

384.

Beethoven, 179, 283.

Bennett, James Gordon, his struggles, 31.

Bentham, Jeremy, 71.

Berry, Captain, 5.

Birkenhead, the English ship, 316.

Bismarck, 160.

Blucher, General, 130; his determination, 244.

Boy slavery, 78

Boys, round, to square holes, 74.

Boys with no chance, 25.

Bright, John, 42.

Brooks, Phillips, on occupation, 98; true greatness, 231 ; on

aspiration, 386.

Brougham, Lord, 71, 130; lack of concentration, 115

Brown, John, 48.

Bryant on patience, 355.

Budgett, Samuel, 70.

Bunyan, 182.

Burke, Edmund, his power, 254; on patience, 354.

Burr, Aaron, his politeness, 56;148.

Burritt, Elihu, 36, 65.

Butler, Bishop, and his persistency, 353

Butler, General, and his colored soldiers, 258.

Buxton, Fowell, on one unwavering aim, 116.

Byron, 87; on Dante, 268; on thirst for gold, 218.

Caesar, 8, 70, 122; and the pirates, 319; self-confidence, 205 ;

influence of, over Romans, 263

Calhoun, John C., his self-confidence, 205.

Calling, be greater than, 104.

Calvin, John, his dyspepsia, 144.

Campbell, Lord, 239,' must work harder than others."

Canova, Antonio, 10

Carelessness, 287.

Carlyle, Thomas, his courage, 244; on persistence, 339 ; on one aim,

108; his gruffness, 152.

Carlyle and Emerson, their silence, 400; on truth, 405.

Catharine of Russia, her rules of eti quette, 153.

Cato, his three regrets, 72.

Cavanaugh, A. M., M. P., his charming manner, 150. Chapel, Sistine, 243.

Character is power, 250, 263; is success, 226, 250, 316; is protection, 256; the poor man's capital, 272 ; always known, 272.

Chateaubriand on Washington, 267.

Chatham, Lord, 262. Cheerfulness and longevity, 133. Chesterfield, Lord, 156. Chickering, Jonas, his precision, 289. Childs, George W., 32; his character, 229.

412

Chitty, 241-Choate, Rufus, his irresistible manner,59, 150; power of concentration, 114, 118; his carefulness, 282; his brevity, 372,386. Christ, his cheerful, sunny religion, 145.

Cicero, his economy of time, 70; true nobility, 210 ; on disagreeable occupations, 23-Cid, the, physical power of, 359. Cincinnatus, Quintius, 256. Clark, Alvan, his accuracy, 281.

Clay, Henry, 45; his graceful manner,150; his concentration, 171; his oretory, 235.

Cleveland, Grover, on luck, 335. Clive, Robert, 87.

Cobbett, William, "always ready," 33,124. Cobden, Richard, 42; on luck, 335; his determination, 242.

Coffin, C. C., on Columbus, 346. Colbert, " the greatness of a country depends on the character of its people," 267. Coleridge, his lack of concentration and purpose, 112.

Collyer, Robert, 394. Colonna, Vittoria, 265.

Columbus, 18 ; his tact with the In. dians,192 ; his victory, 315; in

chains,315; his death, 315. Commandments, Ten, in nature, 40S. Compensation, 369. Confucius on persistence, 350-Conscience, 407.

Cook, Joseph, his great industry, 65. Cooper, Astley, 16. Cooper, Peter, 375-Corti's harp, 300. Courage, 31

Courtesy, among the upper classes, 155. Cooper, William, his shyness, 84; 244. Creon, the Greek slave artist, 26. Crittendon, C. N., his missions, 229-Cromwell, Oliver, 84. Cunard, Samuel, 48.

Curran, his self-respect, 20S ; his determination, 242. Curtius, Marcus, his leap to death, 383. Cushman, Charlotte, 47 . Enthusiasm, 172 DALTON, Dr., 72

Dante, " the man who had been in hell," 283, Darling Grace, 9.

Darwin, Charles, his persistence, 61, 71, 384. Da Vinci, Leonardo, 283. Davy, Sir Humphry, 35, 70. Decision, 8. De Foe, Daniel, 81-De Gaulle, Madame, 66 Demosthenes. his perseverance, 242, 381

INDEX

Depew, Chauncey, on "grit, grip, and pluck," 319. De Quincey, his discouragements, 243.

De Steel, Madame, her precocity, 97;her fascinating manners, 154, 179-Dessaix, at Marengo, 322. Devil, the, "does he lie ?" 281-Dickens, Charles, on close attention, 111; great politeness, 150; his enthusiasm, 171; 171; on on perseverance, 346,351,

Dickinson, her courage, 242

Disraeli, Benjamin, his courage, 242

Dissipation, 270.

Dixey, Henry, 51.

Douglas, Stephen A., his courtesy, 15L

Douglass, Fred, 50.

Dress, importance of, 167-Drew, David, his industry, 8S.

Drew, Samuel, his perseverance, 241.

Dumas, Alexander, 45.

Dunces, noted, S6, S7.

Duty, 105,

EDISON, Thomas A., 38; on perseverance, 341.

Edward, Thomas, and his menagerie, 75.

Eldon, Lord, 49 ; his industry, 241.

Eliot, George, on what to do, 98 ; on aspiration, 386

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, on what to do, 103; on gentleness, 158, 159;

enthusiasm, 173; on work, 228; on luck, 330; 386; perseverance, 354;

every man his own God, 406. Energy, concentrated, 106. Enthusiasm, triumphs of flashes 170.

Erskine, Lord, 82; his of heroism, 328.

Etiquette, origin of, 153.

Euler, the mathematician, 58.

Evarts, W. M., 59.

Everitt, Edward, his charming manner, 151

Exaggeration, in America, 281-Failure the only one possible, 283 ; beware of the first, 306; the test of

persistence, 308.

Fame, 387.

Faraday, Michael, 43,67-Farragut, Admiral, reserve power of,

Fate recedes before knowledge, 293; al

Fare architects of, 303.

Ferguson, 24

Field, Cyrus W-, 246; 347- on brevity, 373; his perseverance,

Field, David Dudley, reserve power of,398.

Financiering, slip-shod, 291.

Fluctuating men never succeed, 340.

Force, Peter, his poverty, 380.

Franklin, Benjamin, on promptness, 129; his integrity, 254; on diligence.

244, 330; his perseverance, 18, 69, 92, 350

Franklin, Lady, her perseverance, 350.

Frederick the Great, 79.

Fremont, J. C., talent for effacing himself, 204.

Frost, Charles G., his industry, 68.

Fry, Elizabeth, and the prisons, 15.

Fuller, Margaret, on the ideal, 386.

GALILEO GALILEI 17, 46, 67, 80; his perseverance, 245.

Garfield, James A., 52, 85; his reserve power, 398.

Garrison, William Lloyd, 39, 60, 138, 162.

Geradini, his persistence, 349.

Germans, three who mastered English, 286.

Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, 260.

Greater, her enthusiasm, 172.

Gibbon, Edward, his painstaking, 284; his perseverance, 342.

Gilpin' John, 244.

Guard, Stephen, and his drayman, 11, 60, 397 ; his sixpence, 246 ; his

brevity 372 ; his precision, 285.

Girls, satisfied with mediocrity, 101.

Gladstone, William E., 67; on Washinton 224.

God does not murder nor torture his children, 363; surrounds us by kindly

hints, 363.

Goethe, 70, 97 ; fascinating manner, 150 ;

price of success, 243; industry, 330.

Gold a death-blow to art, 220.

Goldsmith on cheerfulness, 134.

Goodyear, Charles, his industry, 245.

Gough, John B., 20; at Oxford, 329; 278,

Gould, his wealth, 211.

Graham, George, the watchmaker, 273.

Grant, U. S., in business, 320; at Shiloh and Fort Donelson, 320; his

courage, 321; in the Wilderness, 321; his nine hours' sleep, 369; at

Chattanooga, 7, 60; his promptness, 131; tact, 188; politeness, 151.

Grattan and the red tape, 2S8; self-respect, 205.

Greater than wealth, 210.

Greatness, 271.

Greeley, Horace, early struggles, 30; concentration, 113; his

punctuality,130.

Grit, the perfection of in saying “No,"329,

Grote, George, the historian, 70.

HANCOCK, JOHN, his integrity, 221.

Handel and his harpsichord, 81, 246.

Harland, Marion, her great industry, 66.

Harrison, John, and his chronometer,275,

Harvey, his persistence, 342

Hawthorns, Nathaniel, 16, 69.

Heaven, a place for those who fail on earth, 313.

Henry, Patrick, 60.

Henry, Professor Joseph, 277.

Hercules, his reserve power, 391. 305.

Hermit, the, and the Colosseum,

INDEX 413

Heroism in Memphis and Savannah, 215.

Herschel, 46.

Hill, David B., 39.

Hogarth, his power of observation, 113.

Horner, Francis, his character, 402.

Howe, Elias, 245.

Howe, Julia Ward, on health, 356.

Hugo, Victor, on method, 288.

Humboldt, Alexander von, his industry 167 ; on his success, 364.

Humphrey, President Amherst College,his politeness, 163.

Hunt, Helen, on fretting, 139.

Hunter, John, 68; self-confidence, 204.

Hurry a disease.

Huxley on industry and endurance; 333.

DEAL, the, 385.

ngersoll, on greatness, 228.

nventions, useful, 405.

rving, Washington, self-respect, 204; on fortitude of woman, 329

talian teacher on persistence, 343.

ACKS-AT-ALL-TRADES, 111.

ackson, Andrew, his politeness, 161.

ackson, Richard, his integrity, 252.

efferson, Thomas, his politeness, 158,

errold, Douglas, his will power, 56. 160.

ews, their politeness, 159; their tact, 201

oan of Are, 174, 315.

ohnson, Andrew, 51; " from a tailor up," 282.

ohnson, Samuel, 71 ; his gruffness, 157.

osephine, her fascinating manner, 153,160.

udson, Dr. A., his perseverane, 343.

unot and Napoleon, 328.

uvenal on a lucky man, 335.

Kean, his precocity, 97 ; his persistence,337, 3`12. Kepler, his self-confidence, 45. King Cleomenes and his daughter Gorgo, 251. Kingsley, Charles, on concentration, 111. Kitto, Dr., 26; his perseverance, 241. Kossuth, his character, 264. LABOR, the curse of, 236 ; the school, master of the race, 238. Lafayette on Washington, 225. Lamb, Charles, on grumbling, 143, "Lancet," London, on pluck of the sick, 332.

anman, Charles, 190. La Salle On the Mississippi, 327. atimer, Ridley, and Cranmer, 307. aughter, its power, 137.

awrence, Amos, his promptness, 130;and " the odd cent," 270. awyers who can't get a living. 248. earning, real road to. 211.

ee, Gideon, 51-

Leonidas, 252; victory in his defeat, 316.

Leasing, his absent-mindedness, 391.

Lewis, Edmonia, 50.

Lewis, Ids, 9.

Liberty, love of, 176.

Life is what we make it, 292; along one, and how to reach it, 356;

exhausted by Americans, 361 ; a struggle, 366.

Lighthouse on Lincoln Heath, 293.

Lincoln, Abraham, 52, 72, 225; his humor, 138 ; character of, 263, 265 ;

politeness, 160, 203; desire for learning, 211; on Grant, 319.

Lind, Jenny, 279.

Longfellow, Henry W., 16; on perseverance, 355

Louis IV., his self-conceit, 204.

Love, power of, 381.

Lowell, James R., his politeness, 98; 161.

Loyola, Ignatius, 396.

Lubbock, Sir John, 69.

Luck, none for him who is not striving, 331,334.

Lundy, Benjamin, 25, 39.

Luther, Martin, 283.

Lytton, E. Bulwer, on industry, 112, 112,316,354 ; perseverance, 342.

MACAULAY, his accuracy, 286.

McCormick and his reaper, 245.

McDonald, bravery, at Wagram, 327.

McDougal, Bessie, her courage, 323.

Maintenon, Madame, her wonderful manner, enthusiasm, 172; her

persistence, 350; intense life of, 367

Malibran, ,149

Manhood, nature is after, 237, 251.

Mann, Horace, on health, 358.

Manners, a fortune in, 146; In high places, 152; recipe for, 169.

Manning, Daniel, 38.

Marlborough, Duke of, his politeness,148.

Marshall, John, his infallibility, 118.

Mary, Queen of Scots, her politeness, 158.

Massena, 6; at Genoa, 322; and Napoleon, 322; reserve power, 396.

Masters of the situation, 57.

Matsys, Quentin, 59.

Maydole and his hammer, 275.

Melancholy of our ancestors, 141.

Mendelssohn, his persistency, 339.

Method, 288.

Midas, King, his golden wish, 219.

Mill, John Stuart, 66; on circumstances, 301.

Mill, the magical, for restoring youth, 295.

Miller, Hugh, 66, 80, 241; his pluck, 343; 300; character, 264.

Milton, John, 66, 69.

Miner, Rena L on occupation for girls,101.

Mirabeau, his wonderful manners, 154; his reserve 390. -

Mirth, power, God's medicine, 140.

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Molliere on physicians, 369. Moltke, Von, reserve power of 395. Montaigne, his character, 255. Montesquieu, his accuracy, 284; his pluck, 353. Moods, our, nature reflects, 297. Moore, his perseverance, 244. Morrison, Dr., his courage, 343.

Morse, Professor S. F. B., his struggles with the telegraph, 245. Morton, Governor Marcus, hispersistency, 216. his Mottoes of great men, 233, 234.

Mowry, William A. on concentration,110.

Mozart, 314.

NAPOLEON I. crossing the Alps, 6; will power, 55, 60, 97; the nick of

time, 123 ; on promptness, 129; enthusiasm, 173; perseverance, 244 ; his

courage, 250; his power over the army, 254; his accuracy, 283, 285; and

his generals, 318.

Nature a great economist, 361.

Nature's motto, "work or starve," 235.

Nelson, Lord, 6; on promptness, 129; enthusiasm, 174.

Nerve-Grit, Grip, Pluck, 318.

Nerves, our, are sentinels, 363.

Newton, Sir Isaac, 79; persistence, 244, 342, 343, 284.

Nightingale, Florence, her character, 265

Nilsson, Christine 37.

Nobility, true, 215.

OBSERVATION, 281 ; a keen, 299,

Obstacles, 58; necessary to success, 240,241 ; make men, 311.

Occupation a doubtful one, 97; don't choose for money, 235; honorable,

237.

On time, or the triumphs of promptness, 121.

Opportunity, the Man and the, 5, 7, 8,11, 12, 13; making it, 23;

preparation for, 12.

Owen, Robert, 12

PALACES or hovels, 300.

Palley, his pluck and grit, 245, 338.

Paradise Lost, 243.

Pare, Ambrose, 380.

Parker, Theodore, on Socrates' ebarao ter, 36, 255.

Parkman, Francis, his struggles, 182.

Pascal, 80.

Passions are contagious, 271.

Peabody, George, his generosity, 222.

Pellisier, the Crimean chief, 321.

Perfection of body, 369.

Perry, Commodore, 8.

Perseverance, triumphs of, 340.

Persistence, its reward, 337.

Peter the Great an early riser, 127.

Petrarch, character 264.

Phelps, of, Elizabeth Stuart, 141.

Philip and the Lacedaemonians, 319. Philippe, Louis, 191.

INDEX. 415

Siddons, Mrs. Scott, 279.

Sidney, Sir Philip, and the cup of water, 261.

Phillips, Wendell, 41; his inimitable manner, 150 ; tact, 193 ; courage, 242 ; Silence, statue of, 399.

his love of perfection, 290.

Pierre and Malibran, 211.

Pilgrim's Progress, 243.

Pitt, William, 61 ; his power of concentration, 115; his self-confidence,

204; his grit, 328.

Plague, the, follows famine, 366.

Poe, Edgar A., his poverty, 243, 314.

Possibilities in spare moments, 63.

Poverty, 246.

Principle, 223.

Punctuality the soul of business, 130; gives confidence and credit, 131.

Purpose, an invincible, 58, 104.

Putnam. General, his promptness, 122.

QUALITY greater than leadership or generalship, 267.

Quincy, President, his courtesy, 162.

RAHL, Colonel, Ida fatal delay, 122.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, could toil terribly, 117, 125.,

Raphael, 70; his masterpiece, 314.

Recamier, Madame, her facinating mannor, 149

Reserve, army of the, 389.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 80; on persistency, 339.

Richardson, Dr., on longevity, 368.

Robert, Duke of Normandy, and the poisoned arrow, 214.

Rockefeller, John D., 15.

Rome, her motto, 236.

Rothschild, Nathan M., on concentration, 106; his poverty, 226; and the

Bank of England, 325.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 33; on manhood, 94.

Ruskin, John, his clay, sand, soot, and water, 303; on persistence, 343,

382.

Seas, RUSSELL, 103.

St. Bernard, his personal power, 254.

Savonarola, his industry, 242; his inflexibility, 312.

“Scatteration," 109.

Schiller, his trials, 81.

Scotch boy, Sandie, and his matches, 213.

Scott, John (Lord Eldon), energy of, 241.

Scott, Walter, his will power, 56; his punctuality 127 and his

kindness,140.

Self-confidence, self-respect, 202; give power, 208.

Seneca, his will power, 56.

Shakespeare, William, 17 ; tact, 199; 243.

Sharples, James, his struggles, 45.

Shelley, Kate, the bravery of, 323.

Sheridan, General, at Winchester, 8 : his 257, 286.

Sheridan, courage, R. B., his pluck, 242; might have ruled the world, 263;

first speech, 338.

Sherman, General, 8

Smeaton, John, 82.

Smiles, Samuel, 85.

Smithy Sydney, concentration, 111,123; on labor, 349.

Solomon and his elixir of life, 379.

Sothern, his courage, 343.

Spartan, the, boy and the fox, 328.

Spectacles, the glorious, 298.

Spencer, P. R., Spencerian system, 33.

Spurgeon, no time to make money 220.

Steam, the power of, in Great Britain, 401.

Stephenson, George, 24, 46, 70, 86; his persistency, 244, 342; Gladstone

on 368; Horace Greeley on, 369.

Stewart, A. T., 82, 99; his honesty, 222;method, 288; on lucky people,

335.

Story, the sculptor, and his statue of George Peabody, 400.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 66.

Success, the child of drudgery, 246; price of, 232, 247 ; secret of, 314 ;

constant, 315; early, dangerous, 313.

Sugden, Edward, his thoroughness, 114.

Sultan, the, and his stuffed ball, 365.

Sumner, no time to make money, 220.

TACT, a national trait, 201 ; or common sense, 187.

Talent, not shut out by barriers, 330.

Taylor, General, at Buena Vista, 318.

Thackeray, W. M., on dunces, 86.

Thiers, President, reserve power of, 392; his reprobate youth, 404.

Thoreau, his pluck, 353; and the flower in the road, 294; and his quarrel

with God, 265.

Thorwaldsen, 26.

Time, killing of, 73.

Titian, his perseverance, 342.

Tomorrow, the fool's motto, 121.

"Touchiness," the new disease, 142.

Tucker, Adam, his industry, 353.

Turner, J. M. W., on hard work, 339; his magnanimity, 269, 289.

UNLUCKY people usually shiftless, 335.

VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS, 13, 48; sticking to business, 235.

Varro, Terentius, and Rome, and his 353.

Vergil persistence

Victoria, Queen, and Prince Albert, 147 ;her politeness, 152 ; her character, 264.

Virtue, the resources of, 409.

Voltaire, on great men, 221 ; on great ness, 227.

WALES, Prince of, his politeness, 162

Wallace, Carlyle on 316.

Walton, Isaac 140, 298

Wanamaker, John,.50; his motto, 104.

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Ward, Arteus, 89,200.

Ward, J. Q. A., sculptor, 278.

Washington, George, always prompt,129; his politeness, 161; his

character, 224; and the corporal, 236; his character, 244, 254, 255, 263;

maligned at Valley Forge, 396.

Watt, James, 71; his persistence, 244, 342.

Wayland, Francis, on work, 339; missionary sermon, 286, 391.

Wealth, real, 222 ; greater than, 226, 210.

Webster, Daniel, 190; his pluck, 242, 328, 352; reply to Hayne, 392, 402; a steam engine in trousers," ;" 115 promptness, 130; politeness, 162; self-respect, 207; on Washington, 224; a great worker, 234 ; character and the presidency, 263.

Webster, Noah, his perseverance, 342.

Weed, Thurlow, 35, 38 ; great tact, 195; perseverance, 241; brevity, 373.

Wellington, Duke of, S, 69, 220 ; Sydney

Smith on, 319; at Waterloo, 328; and his physician, 279.

Wesley, John, 88.

West, Benjamin, 81.

What career, 89.

Whipple on business nerve, 332.

Whitefleld, George, his energy, 242.

White, Hen Kirke, 71.

Whiting, J. C., his accuracy, 277.

Whitman, Ezekiel,167.

Whitney, Eli, his struggles wits the cotton-gin, 309.

Whittier, John G., 39, 100.

Wilberforce, advice of, 241.

Willard, Frances, on "woman the great est discovery of the century," 101,

her aspiration, 381.

William the Silent, his character and struggles, 308.

Will power, 58.

Wilson, Professor George, his will power, 56

Wilson, Henry, 29; his perseverance 241.

Winans, Ross, his courtesy, 163.

Winthrop, Robert C., on Washington, 224.

Wirt, William, on hesitating, 339.

Wolfe. General, 56; his self-confidence, 203.

Woman, her influence, 271.

Woman's sphere, 100, 101, 102, 103.

Wordsworth, 139

Work, mix brains with, 239; healthy,366.

Wren, Christopher, enthusiasm of, 174.

YOUTH, enthusiasm of, 183.

ZANE, ELIZABETH, at Fort Henry. 327.