"If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not."
Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and editor associated with The Hartford Courant. He collaborated with Mark Twain on The Gilded Age. Warner was a prominent literary and journalistic voice in late 19th-century America.