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.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

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

Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.