In Greece, wealth and immortality were the sure reward of the man who could distinguish himself in art, literature, or war.

No other country ever did so much to encourage and inspire struggling merit.
"I was born in poverty," said Vice-President Henry Wilson.

"Want sat by my cradle.

I know what it is to ask a mother for bread when she has none to give.

I left my home at ten years of age, and served an apprenticeship of eleven years, receiving a month's schooling each year, and, at the end of eleven years of hard work, a yoke of oxen and six sheep, which brought me eighty-four dollars.