Put your soul into your work, not your hand… – State Safety News, September 1916, published by the University of Arizona Bureau

Blunt tools are sometimes found of use where sharper instruments would fail. – Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge [plain-speaking, candor —tεᖇ&#55

Are the tools without, which the carpenter puts forth his hands to, or are they and all the carpentry within himself; and would he not smile at the notion that chest or house is more than he? – C.A. Bartol, The Rising Faith, Chapter XI: Personality, 1873

All wood is worth logs. – English proverb quoted by Cotgrave, 1611