Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The work is getting the work.
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Working gets in the way of living.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
Work begets work.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
There is no labor in which we engage but that there is a spirit telling us, 'Oh, you do not need to do that; it is a waste of time, and you ought to be engaged in something else.'