Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Idleness was a sin not against the self or against God but against Mammon and Pierce & Pierce.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.