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

Labor is no disgrace.

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.

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.

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.

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