Whether they give or refuse it delights women just the same to have been asked.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights and maybe pitfalls too.

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?

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

It is work work that one delights in that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

When a small child I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment but soon flits away.

When a novel has 200 000 words then it is possible for the reader to experience 200 000 delights and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again perhaps more intensely.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.