“All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.”

“No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.”

“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.”

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”

“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.”

“Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence."(Essay on Tea, 1757.)”

“Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”