Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
Trouble Springs From Idleness.
Busy idleness urges us on.
Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Idleness ruins the constitution
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.