“The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount
“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable
“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
“The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.
“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted
“A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor
“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.
“To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed
“The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed
“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life