Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures--solitude, books and imagination--outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.