George Gissing (1857-1903), "A Profitable Weakness,"
Human Odds and Ends: Stories and Sketches, new ed. (London: A.H. Bullen, 1901), pp. 231-237 (at 232):
Indolence had a great part in his temperament; a book, a sunny corner, and entire tranquillity, formed his ideal of supportable existence.