He edited a paper in Rochester, N.Y., and afterwards conducted the "New Era" in Washington.

For several years he was Marshal of the District of Columbia.
Henry E.Dixey, the well-known actor, began his career upon the stage in the humble part of the hind legs of a cow.
P.T.Barnum rode a horse for ten cents a day.
It was a boy born in a log-cabin, without schooling, or books, or teacher, or ordinary opportunities, who won the admiration of mankind by his homely practical wisdom while President during our Civil War, and who emancipated four million slaves.
Behold this long, lank, awkward youth, felling trees on the little claim, building his homely log-cabin, without floor or windows, teaching himself arithmetic and grammar in the evening by the light of the fireplace.

In his eagerness to know the contents of Blackstone's Commentaries, he walked forty-four miles to procure the precious volumes, and read one hundred pages while returning.

Abraham Lincoln inherited no opportunities, and acquired nothing by luck.

His good fortune consisted simply of untiring perseverance and a right heart.
In another log-cabin, in the backwoods of Ohio, a poor widow is holding a boy eighteen months old, and wondering if she will be able to keep the wolf from her little ones.