"There is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant busi…"

"The wide chasm separating the inevitabilities of economic life from the Christian ideal ... kept the most devout grou…"

"Idleness is not just a psychological necessity, requisite to the construction of a complete human being; it constitut…"

"Do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the sight of heaven."

"A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread."

"It is above all the impersonal and economically rationalized (but for this very reason ethically irrational) characte…"

"Men make it such a point of honour to be fit for business that they forget to examine whether business is fit for a man."

"It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the t…"

"You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod."

"The fact that people with rigorous ethical standards simply could not take up a business career was not altered by th…"