The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.

Sweet idleness.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness-the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Be always employed about some rational thing, that the devil find thee not idle.

If the devil catch a man idle, he'll set him at work.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.

But sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them-their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

This wasted time I have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep. It cannot be employed in reading, nor even in thinking upon any serious subject. It must be wasted on trifles-doing nothing. The string of the bow must be slackened, and the bow itself laid aside.

Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.