“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”

“Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.”

“My definition of a great story has nothing to do with "a varied and interesting background." It is: One that can be read with pleasure by a cultivated reader and reread with increasing pleasure. The business about a varied and interesting background belongs to my definition of a good story.”

“My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.”

“It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.”

“Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”

“The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.”

“I have loved my life in business.”

“Remote from man, with God he passed the days;
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.”

“And a great longing overcame him, a desire to be finished with desire, to forego pleasure and pain, to quit the petty modes of achievement and failure, to have done with distractions, and get on with the business of life, which was death.”