To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.