The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident