A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
Georg Brandes

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
Anna Neagle

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
Mary Astell

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Giacomo Casanova

He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.
Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt Whitman

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
Ashley Montagu

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Lactantius

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
Richard Barnfield

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Anthony Burgess