“Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”

“Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?""Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.”

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”

“Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”

“The ear may be a more open organ than the eye when it comes to the pleasure of words.”

“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.”