Even leisure cannot be enjoyed unless it is won by effort.

If it have not been earned by work, the price has not been paid for it.

[136] There must be work before and work behind, with leisure to fall back upon; but the leisure, without the work, can no more be enjoyed than a surfeit.

Life must needs be disgusting alike to the idle rich man as to the idle poor man, who has no work to do, or, having work, will not do it.

The words found tattooed on the right arm of a sentimental beggar of forty, undergoing his eighth imprisonment in the gaol of Bourges in France, might be adopted as the motto of all idlers: "LE PASSE M'A TROMPE; LE PRESENT ME TOURMENTE; L'AVENIR M'EPOUVANTE;"-- [13The past has deceived me; the present torments me; the future terrifies me] The duty of industry applies to all classes and conditions of society.
All have their work to do in the irrespective conditions of life--the rich as well as the poor.