The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

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.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.