"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."

"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."

""Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult."

"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."

"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."

"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information."

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."