Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.


Further Extracts from the Note-Books of Samuel Butler, compiled and edited by A.T. Bartholomew (1934), p. 262


To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.