The great hope of society is in the individual character.—Channing.
“I always find something to keep me busy,” said Peter Cooper in explaining how he had preserved so well his strength of mind and body, “and to be doing something is the best medicine one can take.”
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.—Landor.
The ones who live the longest and best lives are the cheerful workers, those who find a good excuse for liking the task that comes to their hands. The greatest joy and the truest success do not come to the idler, nor the one who overworks, nor yet to the one who does things by fits and starts, but to
THE STEADY WORKER
The habit of looking on the bright side of things is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.—Samuel Johnson.
Whene’er the sun was shining out, Squire Pettigrew would say,
“Now, hurrah, boys! it’s just the time to be a-making hay,
Because, you see, the sun’s so hot ’twill cure it right away!”
Then all the mowers kept right on a-mowing.