Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

My occupational hazard is my occupation’s just not around…

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing

The businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It’s still possible to love one’s neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don’t ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.

The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.

Being a culinary expert never appears to be an occupation; it turns into genuine enthusiasm.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals,’ the ones who somehow know how to teach.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

He has no traditions to bind him or guide him; and his impulse is to break away from the occupation his father has followed, and make a new way for himself.

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.