Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

The great source of pleasure is variety.

We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.