_Knowledge_ holdeth by the hilt, and heweth out a road to conquest; Ignorance graspeth the blade, and is wounded by its own good sword. _Knowledge_ distilleth health from the virulence of opposite poisons; Ignorance mixeth wholesomes unto the breeding of disease. _Knowledge_ is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; But ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome, ill at ease, and out of place. _M. F. Tupper._ LABOUR. Come unto me, all ye that _labour_ and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.--Matthew, xi. 28. The _labourer_ is worthy of his hire.--Luke, x. 7. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him _labour_, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.--Ephesians, iv. 28. Inventive _Labour_! cunning to deceive Thyself, and skilful to no end but this, Still to be doing, never to achieve-- What profitest?--though all, to such excess, Man cannot utter it, be full of thee-- The eye unsatisfied, the ear no less-- Sore travail, and the vainest vanity Ordained to exercise the sons of men-- Who getteth wisdom, where thy trials be? _J. A. Heraud._ _Labour_, with envy and annoyance, where strangers will thee wealth; _Labour_, with indolence and gloom, where wealth falleth from a father; _Labour_ unto all, whether aching thews, or aching head, or spirit; The curse on the sons of men, in all their states, is _labour_. Nevertheless, to the diligent, _labour_ bringeth blessing; The thought of duty sweeteneth toil, and travail is a pleasure; And time spent in doing, hath a comfort that is not for the idle, The hardship is transmuted into joy by the dear alchemy of mercy. _Labour_ is good for man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. For wearily the body groaneth, like a door on rusty hinges, And the grasp of the mind is weakened, as the talons of a caged vulture. _M. F. Tupper._ LAND. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt. And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that _land_ unto a good _land_, and a large, unto a _land_ flowing with milk and honey.--Exodus, iii. 7, 8. He that tilleth his _land_ shall be satisfied with bread.--Proverbs, xii. 11. Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the _land_ that is vary far off.--Isaiah, xxxiii. 17.