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

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

There is too little courtship in the world.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

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

Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.