The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . ked thesides of his ambition, and stung him into that terribleactivity which made all Europe tremble. Nearly all of the poets, and many of the greatestprose writers of ancient and modern times, have beenlittle men. One of the great poets of Athens wasso small that his friend fastened lead to his sandals toprevent his being toppled over or blown away. Aris-totle, as we have already remarked, was a pigmy inperson, though a giant in intellect. Of Pope, wh
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . ked thesides of his ambition, and stung him into that terribleactivity which made all Europe tremble. Nearly all of the poets, and many of the greatestprose writers of ancient and modern times, have beenlittle men. One of the great poets of Athens wasso small that his friend fastened lead to his sandals toprevent his being toppled over or blown away. Aris-totle, as we have already remarked, was a pigmy inperson, though a giant in intellect. Of Pope, whowas so small and crooked as to be compared to an in-terrogation point, Hazlitt asks, Do we owenothing to his deformity ? He doubtless soliloquized, Though my person be crooked, my verses shall bestraight. It was owing doubtless, in some degree, tothe fact that he could boast of but four feet and sixinches in stature, that the phenomenon of theeighteenth century, the Abbe Galiani, owed his vast. and solid erudition. 4o8 SELF-MADE MEN. Reader, after studying all these good examples,pluck up courage, and resolve to be like the best -^^k^^^^f^^ PART II. HAPPINESS IN SOCIAL AND FAMILY LIFE. Happiness is our beings end and aim ! Alexander Pope. There is a gentle element, and manMay breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul,And drink its living waters till his heartIs pure;—and this is human happiness. N. P. Willis. A mans happiness and success in life will depend not so muchupon what he has, or upon what position he occupies, as uponwhat he is, and the heart he carries into his position. Prof. S. J. Wilson. -*&^*£%%g&&<^ HAPPINESS. 409 HAPPINESS. Over all men hangs a doubtful fate,One gains by what another is bereft;The frugal deities have onlv leftA common bank of happiness below,Maintained, like nature, by an ebb and flow. —Sir Robert Howard. jAPPINESS consists in part in being fortu-nate or successful in business life ; in ac-quiring by honorable effort and legitima
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