“Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.”
“As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.”
“The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.”
“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”
“Sometimes the sweetest wine is squeezed from the grapes of wrath”
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.”