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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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