Enforced idleness, by those who have acquired wealth, is always an error
so long as the health is good. Men of business should never actually
retire while they retain fair bodily and physical faculty. It is one of
the gravest of errors to attempt to enforce idleness on others from the
mistaken sentiment of wishing to place them beyond the necessity for
work. This is against nature. The earth, which is itself ever in motion,
demands ever the motion of cultivation from its inhabitants that it may
be a garden properly arranged from age to age. Those, therefore, who
have idleness thrust upon them, by their progenitors, should throw it
off as if some necessity for work were equally theirs. By this plan they
will live longest to enjoy the greatest happiness.