Incessant Business
“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!
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“It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
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“If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it is regretted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for—business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.” — Henry David Thoreau; Life Without Principle
Carl Spitzweg
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