Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Work keeps at bay, three great evils -- boredom, vice and need.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.