class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">ONE UNWAVERING AIM
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Try to be somebody with all your might.

VII. SOWING AND REAPING
What is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life. Start right. VIII. SELF-HELP
Self-made or never made. The greatest men have risen from the ranks. IX. WORK AND WAIT
Don't risk a life's superstructure upon a day's foundation. X. CLEAR GRIT
The goddess of fame or of fortune has been won by many a poor boy who had no friends, no backing, or anything but pure grit and invincible purpose to commend him. XI. THE GRANDEST THING IN THE WORLD
Manhood is above all riches and overtops all titles; character is greater than any career. XII. WEALTH IN ECONOMY
"Hunger, rags, cold, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt is infinitely worse than all." XIII. RICH WITHOUT MONEY
To have nothing is not poverty. Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. XIV. OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE
"How speaks the present hour? Act." Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. XV. THE MIGHT OF LITTLE THINGS
There is nothing small in a world where a mud-crack swells to an Amazon, and the stealing of a penny may end on the scaffold. XVI. SELF-MASTERY
Guard your weak point. Be lord over yourself.

LIST OF PORTRAITS.

CHAP.
I.	Phillips Brooks	Frontispiece
II.	Oliver Hazard Perry
III.	Walter Scott
IV.	William Hickling Prescott
V.	John Bunyan
VI.	Richard Arkwright
VII.	Victor Hugo
VIII.	James A. Garfield (missing from book)
IX.	Thomas Alva Edison
X.	Andrew Jackson
XI.	John Greenleaf Whittier (missing from book)
XII.	Alexander Hamilton
XIII.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
XIV.	Thomas Jefferson
XV.	Louis Agassiz