“Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done
“The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself
“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven
“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work
“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy
“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach
“Happily in this community we all are bred and born to work; and this honorable mark, set on us all, should bind together the various portions of the community