He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.