Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
Mary McCarthy

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
Hamlin Garland

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Titus Livius

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Herman Melville

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Hesiod

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. Lovecraft

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
John Sterling

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
Denis Kearney

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
William Alexander