We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.