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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or the place.

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.

Work educates the body, as study educates the mind; and that is the best state of society in which there is some work for every man's leisure, and some leisure for every man's work.

Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.

Work in moderation is healthy, as well as agreeable to the human constitution.

Industry enables men to earn their living; it should also enable them to learn to live.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past.

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.

Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.

Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.

But a man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body.

Thus worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.

Throw away, in the first place, all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well.

Take no thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.