FEBRUARY 23
"It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure of life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle, which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is the struggle towards an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further which develops manhood and character."
"Shun idleness, it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals."
Voltaire.
"There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there perpetual despair."
Carlyle.
"'Twere all as good to ease one breast of grief
As sit and watch the sorrows of the world."
The Light of Asia, E. Arnold.