"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
"The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man."
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Source: Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, David Jennings (1800). “The Improvement of the Mind; Or, A Supplement to The Art of Logic. In Two Parts ... Also ... Posthumous Works, Published from His Manuscript, by D. Jennings ... and P. Doddridge”, p.37
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