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 2. An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

 3. By the streets of "by and by", one arrives at the house of "never".

 4. Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

 5. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

 6. Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

 7. He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lampand then shutteth his eyes.

 8. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life!

 9. Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

10. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues.

11. Idleness is the holiday of fools.

12. In delay we waste our lights in vain; like lamps by day.

13. In idle dreams I like to rest preferring the unmanifest

14. Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

15. Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

16. Indolence of which a man is conscious, and indolence of which he is unconscious, are a thousand miles apart. Unconscious indolence is real indolence; conscious indolence is not complete indolence, because there is still some clarity in it...Unconscious indolence is like a sickness without symptoms; it is not noticed.

17. Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigours of the mind.

18. It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

19. Life is a short day; but it is a working day. Activity may lead to evil, but inactivity cannot lead to good.

20. Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

21. Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse to all inaction.

22. Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

23. Never do to-day what you can put off till to-morrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

24. Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

25. Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. It does not involve loss of time, since after a day of complete rest and quietness you will return to your regular occupation with renewed interest and vigour.

26. Procrastination brings loss, delay danger.

27. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

28. Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

29. Rivers and mountains may change...Human nature never.

30. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

31. Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the key often used is always bright.

32. Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored.

33. Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

34. Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

35. That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

36. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

37. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

38. The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.

39. The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.

40. The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak but commonly false too; most of the weak are false.

41. The slothful man is a burden to himself, his hours hang heavy on his head; he loitereth about, and knoweth not what he would do.

42. There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. Man remains just the same.

43. There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.

44. There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

45. Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

46. 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.

47. To-morrow I will live, the fool does say: to-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.

48. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day; to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

49. Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any other sort of employment whatsoever.

50. We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

51. When it is time to turn over in bed, it is time to turn out.

52. Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

53. While we are postponing, life speeds by.