It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Is not true leisure
One with true toil?

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

When a man’s busy, why, leisure
Strikes him as wonderful pleasure:
‘Faith, and at leisure once is he?
Straightway he wants to be busy.

His [the author's] renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruits of riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

And add to these retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.

the soul of the righteous man is nothing but a paradise, in which, as God tells us, He takes His delight.

In leisure — not only there, but certainly there, if anywhere — the truly human is rescued and preserved precisely because the area of the "just human" is left behind over and over again — and this is not brought about through the application of extreme efforts but rather as with a kind of "moving away" (and this "moving" is of course more difficult than the extreme, active effort; it is "more difficult" because it is less at one's own disposal; the condition of utmost exertion is more easily to be realized than the condition of relaxation and detachment, even though the latter is effortless: this is the paradox that reigns over the attainment of leisure, which is at once a human and superhuman condition). As Aristotle said of it: "man cannot live this way insofar as he is man, but only insofar as something divine dwells in him." [Nichomachean Ethics X, 7 (1177b27–28)]

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.

He tried the luxury of doing good.

Anyone who truly makes something of themselves takes their free time and reinvest it in themselves.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.