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

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

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.

Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.

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

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

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.