Joseph Addison Delight Quotations

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.