Joseph Addison Quote

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.