What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

There is no end to the deceits of the past.

Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.