“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
“...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...”
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
“There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. ”
“Meekness does not mean indolence.”