One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
The age being now past of vagrant excursion and fortuitous hostility, he was under the necessity of travelling from court to court, scorned and repulsed as a wild projector, an idle promiser of kingdoms in the clouds; nor has any part of the world y
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
Grief is a species of idleness.