Duty

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain

A child's a plaything for an hour

The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided

Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do

The busy bee has no time for sorrow

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work

When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare