Beauty is never a delusion. [ Hawthorne ]

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. [ Burke ]

Happiness is a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion. [ Quoted by Sterne ]

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. [ Aime-Martin ]

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. [ Lord Bacon ]

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to commonsense, and in lending one's self to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe. [ Amiel ]

The most painful part of our bodily pain is that which is bodiless or immaterial, - namely, our impatience, and the delusion that it will last forever. [ Richter ]