Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

I felt before I thought

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.