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.

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.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.