North Carolina Standard

Brain Labor. To many persons it seems a small thing, to sit down and prepare matter for the periodical press; but let those inexperienced with the pen, and whose brains have never been trained to systematic labor, attempt to furnish intellectual food and recreation to their fellows, and they will soon realize that mental labor is the most destructive to health of all other toil. Were one to grub up the stumps out of the earth, or sling the sledge hammer twelve hours a day, he would be able to stand the drudgery with less injury to the body and soul than half the number of hours devoted to mental employment, in the way of writing matter for the book or newspaper press.

Those pithy sentences which constantly appear in the periodicals of the day, contain the very essence of mind or thought, and such literary gentlemen as are best at itemizing are the very first whose constitutions are broken down. Scott's Weekly Paper, Phila.