What is public opinion? It is private indolence.
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Comfort and indolence are cronies.
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.
We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.
