Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. – Luc De Clapiers

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. – Thomas Jefferson, 1787