Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak
minds, and the holiday of fools.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

Forced idleness is a terrible thing.

Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.

There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.

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