Quotes

It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.

To do a good day’s work and to do it well, he held to be part of their welfare, as it was the chief part of his own happiness; but he had a strong sense of fellowship with them.

The work is accomplished, and there is no resting in it (as an achievement).

And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life’s inmost secret.

The strength of that passion had been a power enabling him to master all the knowledge necessary to gratify it.

Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.

I went at it in good earnest, working for the first time with the hope of reward.

The true joy of a man, is to do that which properly belongs unto a man.

Let this be thy only joy, and thy only comfort, from one sociable kind action without intermission to pass unto another, God being ever in thy mind.

You must cultivate either your own reason or else externals; apply yourself either to things within or without you—that is, be either a philosopher or one of the mob.

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and ‘fall into a vortex’, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

The one thing in the world of value is the active soul,--the soul, free, sovereign, active.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Every man appeared to understand his work, and went at it with a sober, yet cheerful earnestness, which betokened the deep interest which he felt in what he was doing, as well as a sense of his own dignity as a man.

You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners, time to restore to them their lost dignity, and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world.

The thought of going to college took root in my heart and became an earnest desire, which impelled me to enter into competition for a degree with seeing and hearing girls, in the face of the strong opposition of many true and wise friends.

In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, it is to go about a man's work that I am stirred up.