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

A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

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.

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

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.

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.