Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. Author: G.K. Chesterton Copy Quote More from G.K. Chesterton “I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself …” “It is always the secure who are humble.” “Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite co…” “But in practice the great difference between the medieval ethics and ours is th…”