A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets

The man who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye