“Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s. ”
“Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle”
“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”
“Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.”
“Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil’s!”
“Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.”