It is not work that kills men, it is worry.  Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear.  Worry is rust upon the blade.  It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.  Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices.  —­Beecher.

Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate.—­Horace Mann.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest.  He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.  —­J.G.  Holland.

Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.—­Carlyle.

Love labor; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic.—­William Penn.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.—­Bovee.

Labor is rest—­from the sorrows that greet us;
Rest from all petty vexations that meet us,
Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us,
Rest from world-sirens that lure us to ill. 

                                    —­Frances S. Osgood.

No man is born into the world, whose work
Is not born with him. 
—­Lowell.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! 
Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. 
—­Frances S. Osgood.

Language.—­In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver.  —­Joubert.

The language denotes the man.  A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.—­Bovee.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.—­Mark Hopkins.

Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.—­Whipple.

Laughter.—­Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.—­Dr. HUFELAND.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.—­Goethe.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.—­Lamb.

A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy.—­Carlyle.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.—­Talmage.

Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian.  —­Thackeray.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.—­GREVILLE.

Learning.—­Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.—­Chesterfield.

He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.—­Saadi.