~ Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. ~
~ Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ~
~ Idleness ruins the constitution ~
~ "Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe." ~
~ The hardest work is to go idle ~
~ How sweet and sacred idleness is! ~
~ “Be not solitary, be not idle” ~
~ In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet. ~