It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will.

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.

A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

The workman still is greater than his work.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.