Ingenuity Quote by Jane Austen

“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”

— Samuel Butler

“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It was more that he did better being busy, keeping to a routine. It helped hold the black dogs of thought at bay. Also…

— Ellen Airgood

“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

— Jane Austen

“My mind was once diseased with the strange and heady ambition that I might somehow improve the world by living in it.”

— Amelia Gray

“The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them,…

— Peter Pouncey

“And he felt dubious and discontented suddenly, and wondered whether he was really and truly successful as a human being.”

— E. M. Forster

“Be always employed to something useful.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“He simply knew his own mind and found it company enough.”

— Ian Johnstone

“Neatness was not one of the things he aimed at in life.”

— George Selden

“More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.”

— Deb Caletti

“All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great…

— Stefan Zweig