All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.

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.