"My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

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

"By the work one knows the workman"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"