The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.