Remember... It's a jungle out there!

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya sits and does nothing. I don't work too much, either.

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.