Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.