CAULD.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of
stupidity.--BARTON.

OCCUPATION.--Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have
known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because
he has had the management of it.--DR. HORNE.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to
human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of
misery.--BURTON.

Occupation alone is happiness.--DR. JOHNSON.

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble
and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there
was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor."
--SAMUEL SMILES.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the
regular discharge of some mechanical duty.--SCHILLER.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which
finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or
broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.--EMERSON.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other
blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life.--CARLYLE.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is
as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to
do.--MISS MULOCK.

OPINION.--Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed
with greater.--H.W. SHAW.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he
differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself
on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.--HORACE
MANN.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and
taste of others, is a slave.--KLOPSTOCK.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is
true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.--VENNING.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may
make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head
hospitality.--JOUBERT.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for
having changed his opinion.--CICERO.

Who observes not that the voice of the people, yea of that people that
voiced themselves the people of God, did prosecute the God of all
people, with one common voice, "He is worthy to die." I will not,
therefore, ambitiously beg their voices for my preferment; nor weigh
my worth in that uneven balance, in which a feather of opi