"Some are "industrious," and appear to love..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once moreonly the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,--those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.”

“Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.”

“When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.”

“Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?”

“In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.”

“For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.”

“The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.”

“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”

“Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.”