It all springs from the charming, cultured, whimsical idleness of our gentry! I'm ready to repeat it for thirty thousand years.

We don't know how to live by our own labour.

And as for the fuss they're making now about the 'dawn' of some sort of public opinion, has it so suddenly dropped from heaven without any warning?
How is it they don't understand that before we can have an opinion of our own we must have work, our own work, our own initiative in things, our own experience.

Nothing is to be gained for nothing.

If we work we shall have an opinion of our own.