No group or class should be freed from doing the toil of the culture. One of our current problems is that there are too many people who simply have no idea how much unpleasant, tedious, and repetitive work is required to support their "high-level" activities, and how ineffective they would be without the effort of those they all too often disdain.
—Robert Theobold
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
—Max Beerbohm
Mine is the horny hand of toil.
—John Singer Sargent