Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.


The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)


Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.

Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.

Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.

Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.