“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”

“Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”

“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?”

“There is no greater pleasure than winning a competition with one's sister and no greater sorrow than to see her suffer because of it.”

“Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.”

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