He who considers his work beneath him will be above doing it well.

The ant is knowing and wise; but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

Every man's task is his life-preserver.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

We put our love where we have put our labor.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.