If we do not find the imaginary treasure, at any rate we enrich the
vineyard.
"Work," says Nature to man, "in every hour, paid or unpaid; see only that
thou work, and thou canst not escape the reward: whether thy work be fine
or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done
to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as
to the thought: no matter how often defeated, you are born to victory. The
reward of a thing well done is to have done it." [4]
Nor can any work, however persevering, or any success, however great,
exhaust the prizes of life.
The most studious, the most successful, must recognize that there yet
remain
"So much to do that is not e'en begun,
So much to hope for that we cannot see,
So much to win, so many things to be." [5]
At the present time, though there may be some special drawbacks, still we
come to our work with many advantages which were not enjoyed in olden
times. We live in much greater security ourselves, and are less liable to
have the fruits of our labor torn violently from us.
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