True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. In idleness there is a perpetual despair. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.