And, while sloth makes all things difficult; industry makes all things 
easy. 
Industry need not wish. 
Truly beautiful is the description Schiller gives us, in his “Song of 
the Bell,” of the industrious husband and of the diligent house-wife: 
“The husband must fight, 
’Mid struggles and strife, 
The battle of life; 
Must plant and create. 
Watch, snare, and debate, 
Must venture, and stake 
His fortune to make. 
Then boundless in torrents comes pouring the gift, 
The garners o’erflow with the costliest thrift, 
The store-rooms increase, and the mansion expands. 
Within it reigns 
The prudent wife. 
The tender mother, 
In wisdom’s ways 
Her house she sways, 
Instructeth the girls, 
Controlleth the boys. 
With diligent hands 
She works and commands, 
Increases the gains 
And order maintains; 
With treasures the sweet smelling wardrobe she stores 
And busily over the spinning wheel pores, 
She hoards in the bright polished presses till full 
The snowy white linen, the sparkling wool, 
The bright and the showy to good she disposes, 
And never reposes. ” 
