Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.