MEMORY GEMS.
Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.—Hogarth.
Know something of everything and everything of something.
—Lord Brougham
The difference between one boy and another lies not so much in talent as
in energy.—Dr. Arnold
Work wields the weapons of power, wins the palm of success, and wears
the crown of victory.—A. T. Pierson.
A lazy man is of no more use than a dead man, and he takes up more
room.—O. S. Harden.
By industry we mean activity that is regular and devoted to the carrying out of some purpose. More definitely, it is activity that is designed to be useful to ourselves or to others. It is thus a regulated activity by which our welfare, or that of others, may be furthered.
We are apt to think, or at least to feel, that the necessity of working regularly is a hardship. Because we get tired with our work and look forward with eagerness to the time of rest, we form the opinion that the pleasantest life would be one which should be all rest.
Industry might well be urged as a duty. But we would rather now speak of it chiefly as an aid in accomplishing other duties. Few things are more helpful toward right living than industry, and few more conducive to wrong living than idleness.
No doubt there are on this subject opposing opinions. Some believe, whether they openly confess it or not, that the glory of the highest success is not within the reach of every honest toiler; that it is, like other legacies, the good fortune to which some are heirs, but which others are denied—the inheritance only of those whom nature has well endowed. These are the advocates of genius.