“A business with an income at its heels
Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 615.
“Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 623.
“An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless when it goes as when it stands.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 681.
