It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be
described.
[Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit read more

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be
described.
[Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne
se decrit point.]

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
[Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
[Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of read more

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.