Idle Tone

Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or tone:

    A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. The idle are the only wretched.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
    James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)