“Maintain also a resolute industry under the labours and difficulties of your callings. Time and use will make that easy … Continue reading Resolute industry

“The circumstances of persons are also to be considered in the choice of a calling. It is absurd to set … Continue reading Circumstances Considered in Choice Callings

“A plain employment, very well suits a plain education; but it will require uncommon wisdom and humility, for persons of … Continue reading Mundane and the Tragic

“The Almighty God may do what he will, we must do what we might; that is, fit the means to … Continue reading The Richard Rule

“The employment or calling we choose, must be suitable or fit. Rashness and negligence herein, has often been the ruin … Continue reading Render their weakness the more conspicuous

“It was the general custom of the Jews to bring up their children to manual labour, how plentiful soever their … Continue reading Working as a tentmaker

These quotes by Steele don’t necessarily imply agreement or endorsement (I just felt like gathering up things related to jobs, … Continue reading Trifling intermeddlers

“But though we may form pleasing chimeras of the advantage of attending other employments than our own; yet it will … Continue reading Pleasing chimeras