“Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.” MenMindInspirationHumanitySocialPleasureCommonFieldsDutyDevelopmentCivilizationActivityConversationApproachIntelligentDebtRationalEnjoymentLinksDisplayFinestAdequateExquisiteSolaceAmenities Author:Agnes Repplier
“The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.” PassionHoursPleasureStudySourceIndependentRationalEnjoymentEach DayPerpetualSuppliesVigor Book:Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself Source: Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself
“Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.” MeanPlayRememberSpeakPleasureWineRationalExcessBrutalElegantDrunkennessGamingGluttonySwineDebaucheryGallantry Author:Lord Chesterfield
“The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.” WorldMindRealJoyPleasureSolitudeCapableAdvantageIndependenceNobleRationalAcquireDestructiveMelancholyContemptIdleDiscontentApprehensionJoy Of LifeDeceitfulDistasteAffording Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann