I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.
