Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.

Morley treats “loafing” (idling, lingering, unhurried enjoyment) not as a moral failing but as a self-justifying human need. The line pushes back against a culture of constant productivity and the demand to rationalize leisure as “useful” (rest for work, self-improvement, etc.). By saying it “needs no explanation,” the quote asserts that time spent doing nothing—or doing something for no instrumental reason—can be intrinsically valuable. It also carries a lightly comic defiance: the loafer refuses to plead a case to the industrious. In Morley’s spirit, loafing becomes a small act of independence and a defense of contemplative, humane living.