Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.
Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.