When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world and droop. Sick of its business of its pleasures tired how gracious how benign is solitude.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful they do not excite desire.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Old age has its pleasures which though different are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries but is dead to all the pleasures.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money it is all profit it completes our education founds and fosters our friendships and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.