“I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.”
“Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.”
“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
“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”
“Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one."That’s what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out.Those were his last words.”