You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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

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

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

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.

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.

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