“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.”

“A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.”

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”

“Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.”

“He has borne with thousands of foul and abominable sins which you have committed against Him, yet even they have not been enough to make Him cease looking upon you. Is it such a great matter, then, for you to avert the eyes of your soul from the outward things and sometimes to look at Him?”

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”