Life is not life at all without delight. - Coventry Patmore

What seems to us for us is true.
The planet has no proper light,
And yet when Venus is in view,
No primal star is half so bright.

If you try to simplify or pare off the superfluous from the minds and speech of most men, you will find that nothing is left. There is no simplicity in them, for there is no truth; truth and simplicity being, as Aquinas says, the same thing.

How light the touches are that kiss
The music from the chords of life!