Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.