A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.