'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.