While others toil, these seem by some easy word to turn stones into bread. At the very best they get only things. They themselves are not richer, but by their very success grow daily meaner and poorer in life. There is no other way. Everlastingly man has sought to make bread out of stones, but it cannot be done.
Bread is the symbol of all good things.
It is true that the best things of life are those for which we pay no price. They are never quoted in the markets of the World. Wall Street cannot deal in them. It is comparable to the thrill of the scenery upon the mountain top. The measure of your life and mine depends upon the sincerity and earnestness and tenacity with which we fix our attention upon worth-while things, and the persistence with which we cultivate them.