It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. – W. H. Auden

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? – William H. Davies