In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime,... if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on witho...ut money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus is Paradise to be Regained, and that old and stern decree at length reversed. Man shall no more earn his living by the sweat ...of his brow. All labor shall be reduced to "a short turn of some crank," and "taking the finished articles away." But there is a crank,--oh, how hard to be turned! Could there not be a crank upon a crank,--an infinitely small crank? Mwe would fain inquire. No,--alas! not.... In fact, no work can be shirked. It may be postponed indefinitely, but not infinitely. Nor can any really important work be made easier by coöperation or machinery. Not one particle of labor now threatening any man can be routed without being performed. It cannot be hunted out of the vicinity like jackals and hyenas. It will not run. You may begin by sawing the little sticks, or you may saw the great sticks first, but sooner or later you must saw them both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experien...ce. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger a...nd are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Early in the morning, when day breaks, when all is fresh, in the dawn of one's strength--to read a book at such a time is simply d...epraved!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believe...s itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it before ... why do we think we can succeed now?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I thin...k God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »