There are many arguments against industry; much is to be said against its wholesale practice.

For one thing, habitual diligence, of whatever sort, begets other habits hard to break, habits that persist in plaguing a man during his periods of indolence and perhaps during his whole life.

Early rising is one of the most annoying of these habits.
While it cannot be said that Tom Parker had ever labored arduously at anything, nevertheless he had followed his calling faithfully, and the peculiar exigencies of that calling had made of him a light and fitful sleeper.

He had so often used the earth as a mattress and his saddle as a pillow, that sunup invariably roused him, and as a consequence he liked to tell people that he could do with less sleep than any man in Texas.

That was, in fact, one of his pet complaints.
It was true that Old Tom never slept long, but it was also true that he slept oftener than any man in Texas.