I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.

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

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

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.