I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perf...ect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How marvellous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a... world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human--for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »