Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed

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

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

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

I live an idle burden to the ground.