Occupation: Mountaineer Birth: 1828 Death: 1901
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men..
No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an ….
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages..
The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor ….
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character..
What a man does is the real test of what a man is..
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth..
[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnan….
So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that so….