Alexander the Great, reflecting on his friends degenerating into sloth
and luxury, told them that it was a most slavish thing to luxuriate, and
a most royal thing to labor.--_Barrow._
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they
could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really
produced a master like Raphael.--_Goethe._
He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor forgets the
early rising and hard riding of huntsmen.--_Locke._
The pain of life but sweetens death; the hardest labor brings the
soundest sleep.--_Albert Smith._
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve,
but the will to labor.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
The true epic of our times is not "arms and the man," but "tools and the
man," an infinitely wider kind of epic.--_Carlyle._
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without
becoming proportionably brutified!--_Hawthorne._
~Land.~--There is a distinct joy in owning land, unlike that which you
have in money, in houses, in books, pictures, or anything else which men
have devised. Personal property brings you into society with men. But
land is a part of God's estate in the globe; and when a parcel of
ground is deeded to you, and you walk over it, and call it your own, it
seems as if you had come into partnership with the original Proprietor
of the earth.--_Beecher._
~Language.~--The Creator has gifted the whole universe with language, but
few are the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it is no
foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care and pain, but rather a
native language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great
mother.--_Bulwer-Lytton._