On the contrary, to have no profession is to be free--to be one's own master.

Any one who is forced to earn his living must, of course, have a profession.

But it is never anything but a necessary evil.

It is only pedantic people who look upon it as an object of life.

At most, it is a means to an end." "And what do you consider to be the real object of life ?" "Can you ask?
Why, happiness of course!" "Happiness--certainly.