“Meekness does not mean indolence.”
“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”
“Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.”
“It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.”
“The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.”
“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.”