“Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders”

“What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.”

“Worries go down better with soup than without.”

“When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.”

“Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.”

“The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.”

“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do...”

“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”

“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organi...”