The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
"Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon."
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
To have what we want is riches; but to do without is power.