Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

My nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan.

Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labor be?

Those who work much do not work hard.

Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.