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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.