In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.