I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ballup against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.
It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?
Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
That which makes much noise and does nothing useful.
