There are several kinds of occupation, where we cannot be said to join our labour to the object we acquire: As when we possess a meadow by grazing our cattle upon it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Proctagoras and Aristo gave no other essence to the justice of laws than the authority and opinion of the legislator; and that, these laid aside, the honest and the good lost their qualities, and remained empty names of indifferent things; Thrasymachus, in Plato, is of opinion that there is no other right but the convenience of the superior.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Loiseau deck her window-sills with fuchsias, which developed the bad habit of letting their branches trail at all times and in all directions, head downwards, and whose flowers had no more important business, when they were big enough to taste the joys of life, than to go and cool their purple, congested cheeks against the dark front of the church; to me such conduct sanctified the fuchsias not at all; between the flowers and the blackened stones towards which they leaned, if my eyes could discern no interval, my mind preserved the impression of an abyss.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Then there are those connected with the joy of life, the throbbing of the great life spirit, the gladness of being, the desire of the sexes; and also those connected with the sadness and mystery of death and decay, &c. The technical side of an art is, however, not concerned with these deeper motives but with the 22 things of sense through which they find expression; in the case of painting, the visible universe.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Oh winter dayes bring much delight, 50 Not for themselves, but for they soon bring night; Other sweets wait thee then these diverse meats, Other disports then dancing jollities, Other love tricks then glancing with the eyes, But that the Sun still in our halfe Spheare sweates; [page 143] 55 Hee flies in winter, but he now stands still.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

"Horseflies, gnats and mosquitoes add to the joys of living throughout the entire length of the Yukon valley.
— from Klondyke Nuggets A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest by Joseph Ladue

He doubtless meant that these goddesses—" les filles de joie " are always young—gave us visions of the joy of life; that they might be sensuous without being sensual; but his phrase falls far short of the truth.
— from Confessions of a Book-Lover by Maurice Francis Egan

Jermiin is one of the Norfolk names of early date for which Mr. Walter Rye claims a Danish origin, and he was probably a Jermy (or letters to that effect) who, in Tudor times, built Stanfield Hall, and moated it round and about.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

Popanilla was surprised when he was informed that Hubbabub did not contain more than five millions of inhabitants; but his surprise was decreased when their journey occasionally lay through tracts of streets, consisting often of capacious mansions entirely tenantless.
— from The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In this situation, information of Mr. Adams' journey of leave to the Hague reached me on the day of his arrival there.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

The chapters deal with "The Prodigality of Love," "The Claim and Response of Love," "The Quality of Divine Love," "The Joy of Love," "The Timeliness of Love," "The Tardiness of Love, the Power and Patience of Love," "Love's Reward of Obedience," "Love's Perplexity."
— from Round about Bar-le-Duc by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day

"If you'll tell me just one little, tiny thing: that you're not going to see Maxine de Renzie."
— from The Powers and Maxine by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

[ Philosophical Works , ii. 276, n. 1]):—“There are several kinds of occupation, where we cannot be said to join our labour to the object we acquire; as when we possess a meadow by grazing our cattle upon it.”
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck