THE DISCIPLINE OF WORK.
The first object of all work—not the principal one, but the first and necessary one—is to get food, clothes, lodging, and fuel.
But it is quite possible to have too much of all these things. I know a great many gentlemen, who eat too large dinners; a great many ladies, who have too many clothes. I know there is lodging to spare in London, for I have several houses there myself, which I can't let. And I know there is fuel to spare everywhere, since we get up steam to pound the roads with, while our men stand idle; or drink till they can't stand, idle, or otherwise.
Ruskin