—David Starr Jordan.
“Of all bad habits, despondency is among the least respectable, and there is no one quite so tiresome as the sad-visaged Christian who is oppressed by the wickedness and hopelessness of the world.”
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste of time.
—Sir J. Lubbock.
There is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that keeps one’s heart young like sympathy, like giving one’s self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or cause.
—John Burroughs.
A truly concentrated life promptly rejects every thought of past or future that would disturb its confidence in the present hour.
—C. B. Newcomb.
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom more fruitful than his toil.
—Hamilton Wright Mabie.