Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.