cheerful-working-ness

Updated: June 15, 2025

He directed that a garland of flowers, provided by fifty-eight families whom he had established in life, should be the only decoration of his coffin a slight but touching image of the more durable monument which he had erected for himself in his works. Such are only a few instances, of the cheerful-working-ness of great men, which might, indeed, be multiplied to any extent.

Samuel Smiles - Character