"La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle."

"IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices."

"There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversat…"

"For idleness is an appendix to nobility."

"Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."

"An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands."

"How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!"

"You must generate energy in order to exist. Everyone must always be working hard. You should never cultivate inaction…"

"What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?"

"Thus idly busy rolls their world away."