"The reason of idleness and of crime..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.”

“Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.”

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”

“Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.”

“Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.”

“Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.”

“This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not stop all assault-weapon crime, statistics prove that we can dry up the supply of these guns, making them less accessible to criminals.”

“I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”

“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”