Chapter 29 — Part III: The Decalogue — The Sixth Commandment
Section 22. Avoidance Of Idleness — We now come to the remedies which consist in action. The first is studiously to avoid idleness; for, according to Ezechiel, it was by yielding to the enervating influence of idleness that the Sodomites plunged into the most shameful crime of criminal lust.