Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.
We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.
Politeness costs little and yields much.
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
The first rule for speaking well is to think well.
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.