“He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.”
“We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.”
“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”
“Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing”
“Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class.”
“Idleness breeds our better virtues.”