“Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.”
“Yes, there is work enough for all of us and today is no time to be idle”
“That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.”
“After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work”
“lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired”
“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”