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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

If little labour. little are our gaines: Man's fortunes are according to his paines.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.

By labor fire is got out of stone.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

The workers asked only for bread and a shortening of the long hours of toil. The agitators gave them visions. The police gave them clubs.

On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.