Hypocrisy is folly.  It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.—­Cecil.

Hypocrites do the devil’s drudgery in Christ’s livery.—­Matthew Henry.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker,
The God of goodness, was an undertaker. 
—­Peter pindar.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.—­Hosea Ballou.

Such a man will omit neither family worship, nor a sneer at his neighbor.  He will neither milk his cows on the first day of the week without a Sabbath mask on his face, nor remove it while he waters the milk for his customers.—­George MACDONALD.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.—­Colton.

Idleness.—­I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.—­Chesterfield.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.—­Haliburton.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains.  The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.—­Judge Hale.

If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride or luxury or ambition or egotism?  No; I shall say indolence.  Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest.  Indeed, all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.  —­Zimmermann.

A poor idle man cannot be an honest man.—­Achilles POINCELOT.

Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’d. 
—­Cowper.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.—­Franklin.

Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally as worms are generated in a stagnant pool.—­From the Latin.

An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.—­Bunyan.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it.  It is rather a precipice than a road.—­Beecher.

The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.—­Hillard.

Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly on to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight.—­Dr. Johnson.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands,
As useless if it goes as when it stands. 
—­Cowper.