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.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

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.

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

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.

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

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.

Labor is no disgrace.

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

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.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.