These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together,—­manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance.—­Wordsworth.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill;
We may be independent if we will. 
—­Churchill.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.—­Pope.

Industry.—­Industry is a Christian obligation, imposed on our race to develop the noblest energies, and insures the highest reward.  —­E.L.  Magoon.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings.—­Proverbs 22:29.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.  Nothing is denied to well-directed labor; nothing is ever to be attained without it.  —­Sir J. Reynolds.

If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter.  Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.—­Franklin.

There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries and by all nations; it is the philosopher’s stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant’s ship as soon to him as he can desire.  In a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.  —­Clarendon.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market.  It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality:  that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.  Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.—­Franklin.

The celebrated Galen said employment was nature’s physician.  It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.—­Colton.

In every rank, or great or small,
’Tis industry supports us all. 
—­Gay.

Infidelity.—­There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,—­insincerity, unbelief.  —­Carlyle.

Infidelity is one of those coinages,—­a mass of base money that won’t pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly.  And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible.  It is the fearful blindness of the soul.—­Chalmers.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand.  “Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man’s I know.”—­Helps.