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.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

Labor is no disgrace.

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.

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