"It is a common myth that idlers are incapable of working. The term “idler” is used as a pejorative by the forces of d…"

"Another characteristic of the idler's work is that it looks suspiciously like play. This, again, makes the non-idler …"

"The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to…"

"When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"