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.

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

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

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.

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

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

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.

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