For Thou, being the Good, needing no good, art ever at rest, because Thou Thyself art Thy rest. The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil. If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.