More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Plaster thick, some will stick.

The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.