All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.—Socrates.
Immortality o'ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth: Thou livest forever!—Byron.
Independence.—It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.—Cobbett.
These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together,—manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance.—Wordsworth.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill;
We may be independent if we will.
—Churchill.
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.—Pope.
Industry.—Industry is a Christian obligation, imposed on our race to develop the noblest energies, and insures the highest reward.—E.L. Magoon.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings.—Proverbs 22:29.
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.—Sir J. Reynolds.
If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.—Franklin.