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.

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.

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

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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

I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.

Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.