Then it was that they discovered the treasure concealed in the estate, of which their wise old father had advised them.
Labour is at once a burden, a chastisement, an honour, and a pleasure.
It may be identified with poverty, but there is also glory in it.

It bears witness, at the same time, to our natural wants and to our manifold needs.

What were man, what were life, what were civilization, without labour?
All that is great in man comes of labour;--greatness in art, in literature, in science.

Knowledge--"the wing wherewith we fly to heaven"-- is only acquired through labour.

Genius is but a capability of labouring intensely: it is the power of making great and sustained efforts.