"Leisure is the time for doing something..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.”

“Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself”

“It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.”

“I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.”

“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.”

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”

“Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.”

“It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.”

“I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.”