William Hazlitt Enjoyment Quotations

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty; and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s

We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.