The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.—Schiller.
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.—Emerson.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life.—Carlyle.
One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind—and that is as much in our hands as theirs—is the right of having something to do.—Miss Mulock.
Opinion.—Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.—H.W. Shaw.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.—Horace Mann.
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.—Klopstock.
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.—Venning.
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.—Joubert.
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.—Cicero.