Work and Profession

He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake … A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Thus methinks should men of judgement frame

Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.

Something attempted, something done,

Under a spreading chestnut tree

The best fame is a writer’s fame: it’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough that you get interrupted when you eat.

Take up the White Man’s burden—

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;

Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won’t want.

A servant with this clause

Between my finger and my thumb

The proletarian state must bring up thousands of excellent ‘mechanics of culture’, ‘engineers of the soul’.

A man he was to all the country dear,

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast.