Work

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something

Quality is not an act, it is a habit

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection

By the work one knows the workman

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

The beginning is the most important part of the work

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head