I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don’t look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

The only Christian work is good work well done.

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.