“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good”

“If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back”

“He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young”

“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable”

“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”

“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle”