The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.