Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.

And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: That he who lives more lives than one, More deaths than one shall die.

Doing nothing is hard work.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.