The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

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

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.

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.

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

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.