I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.
I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.