sloth quotes

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counselled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, Not peace.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.226^8.