I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.

Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don't feel like it.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.