I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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.

My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment but there is death in them at the end.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.