"Hillel stood in the gate of Jerusalem one day and saw the people on their way to work. "How much,"​ he asked, "will yo..."

"The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, th..."

"With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread..."