“...he lives for her carrying her image in his heart and toiling for her all her days.”
James Russell Miller
“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
Adam Smith
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
Grover Cleveland
“So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Whilst we strive / To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.”
John Ford
“Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of that bubble, reputation, which, when once grasped, breaks in your eager clutch into a hundred lesser bubbles, that soar above you still.”
Donald Grant Mitchell
“He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night”
Benjamin Franklin
