If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.