We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to ...us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who ...work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lot of man is ceaseless labour, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder,... Or irregular labour, which is not pleasant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate ...entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the doctrine of the Farm is merely this, that every man ought to stand in primary relations to the work of the world, ought to... do it himself, and not to suffer the accident of his having a purse in his pocket, or his having been bred to some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the accumulated wealth of the past generations is thus tainted,--no matter how much of it is offered to us,--we must begin to c...onsider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it, and to put ourselves in primary relations with the soil and nature, and abstaining from whatever is dishonest and unclean, to take each of us bravely his part, with his own hands, in the manual labor of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »