Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

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

Idleness is the greatest Prodigality.

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues