Imagination the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature should be limited. In order to enjoy life we should not enjoy it too much.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it it is the mainspring of everything now is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that and I hope that with the job I'm in now they are if not proud at least unembarrassed by it. I must say my three are most agreeable children who do nothing but delight me.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

Of all the species of literary composition perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed which is wanting in general history.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.