Obstinacy.—Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.—Madame Necker.
People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are.—Blair.
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.—Pope.
Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.—Thomas Paine.
Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.—La Rochefoucauld.
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.—Barton.
Occupation.—Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.—Dr. Horne.
Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.—Burton.
Occupation alone is happiness.—Dr. Johnson.
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor."—Samuel Smiles.