“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”
“Sage,” Adrian declared. “These hands don’t do manual labor.”
“With intellectual labor your hard work is forever, while with manual labor your hard work is temporary and soon forgotten.”
“Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.”
“His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.”
“Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have”