There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.
I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you should be doing which is contemplating.
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing. . . . I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.
The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.
No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.