Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.