I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months.
Source: Pyrotechny.
-- Artemus Ward, (Apr 26 1834-1867), US humorist; One of the most popular 19th-century American humorists, whose lecture techniques exercised much influence on such humorists as Mark Twain.