The essence of Toryism is enjoyment†but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedötrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

-Bagehot,Walter
  Essay on Macaulay.

   When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man'sö Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Sergeant's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act 2.

  It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

-Hume, David
^2  Essays Moral, Political and Literary,'The Sceptic'.

   I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this: Was it done with enjoymentö was the carver happy while he was about it?

-Ruskin,John
  Seven Lamps of Architecture,'The Lamp of Life', sect.24.

I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.

-Shipton, Eric Earle
  Nanda Devi.

I came to the conclusion that some more ascetic reason than mere enjoyment should be found if one wishes to travel in peace: to do things for fun smacks of levity, immoralityalmost, in our utilitarian world. And though personally I think the world is wrong, and I know in my heart of hearts that it is a most excellent reason to do things merely because one likes the doing of them, I would advise all those who wish to see unwrinkled brows in passport offices to start out ready labelled as entomologists, anthropologists, or whatever other - ology they think suitable and propitious.

-Stark, Dame Freya Madeleine
  TheValleys of theAssassins and other PersianTravels.