I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.
We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.
Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.
Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. . . . Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
A lonely impulse of delight
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.
. . . God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the soul a fire and a love and a sweetness not customary, wherein it doth greatly delight and rejoice. . . Thus doth the soul feel that God is mingled with it and hath made companionship with it.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.