The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. George Bernard Shaw
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. Bertrand Russell
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. Anne Brontë
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. Benjamin Franklin
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. Friedrich Nietzsche
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in. Henry David Thoreau