Work

You live in your dressing gown, the great enemy of liberty and activity.

One becomes calmer regarding many things, and precisely because of that one is more fit for one's work.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart and keeps it, has a mind That hungers and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life.

Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That fits him for the place.

I was very seldom idle, but having regularly divided my time according to the several daily employments that were before me, such as: first, my duty to God, and the reading the Scriptures.

Business is really pleasanter than pleasure, though it does not look so.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work

Well done is better than well said

Zuhause ist, wo ich arbeite, und ich arbeite überall

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

In our good works nothing is our own

Beware of the doctor, whose wife sells cemetery plots, whose brother owns a granite quarry, and whose father deals in shovels

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind

Quality is not an act, it is a habit

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection