If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.—Colton.
Idleness.—I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.—Chesterfield.
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.—Haliburton.
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.—Judge Hale.
If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride or luxury or ambition or egotism? No; I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed, all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.—Zimmermann.
A poor idle man cannot be an honest man.—Achilles Poincelot.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
—Cowper.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.—Franklin.
Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally as worms are generated in a stagnant pool.—From the Latin.