The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
Temperance adds zest to pleasure.
The first rule for speaking well is to think well.
Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.
We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.
We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.