Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.
Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.
Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.