The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
Source: Centuries, Fourth Century, no. 95 (first published 1908), written c. 1672.
-- Thomas Traherne, ( 1637-1674), English poet, mystic; He wrote Roman Forgeries, 1673 and Christian Ethicks, 1675.