Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.