"Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure."

"Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure."

"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too"

"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary."

"He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected."

"Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy."

"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."

"To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives."

"Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use."

"The great source of pleasure is variety"

"A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market."

"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."

"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

"If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons."

"Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain."

"Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression."

"If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him."

"No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual pleasure, separated mirth from indecency, and wit from licentiousness"

"Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship"

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

"I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed."

"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."

"The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance."