Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.