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

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

Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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

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.