Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
John RuskinThe question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
John RuskinProduction does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.
John Ruskin