620. An idle Person is the Devil's Playfellow.

There is no inspiration in evil and no power except for its own destruction.

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.

Idleness is the foundation of all evil imaginations.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

398. — Of all our faults that which we most readily admit is idleness: we believe that it makes all virtues ineffectual, and that without utterly destroying, it at least suspends their operation.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Even as there is no virtue which is wanting to the busy man, so there is no vice which does not bear the idle company.

Idle wishing for circumstances different from what you had was a waste of time.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Thought from which no emotion springs is sterile. The knowledge that has no bearing on the conduct of life is vain.

Idleness is the open field of perdition, well tilled and sown with evil thoughts.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored....