The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. We begin with lies, and half our lives we live with lies. Most human beings waste some twenty-five to thirty years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

There was one of two things I had a right to-liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

The time best employed is that which is wasted.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Leisure in time is like unoccupied floor space in a room.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

All warfare is based on deception.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary, because health is worth more than learning.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

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.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.