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'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

Content begets content.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.