A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

How Sunday into Monday melts!

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.