“The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.”

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”

“To have a great capital is not so necessary as to know how to manage a small one, and never to be without a little.”

“I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure because it is necessary.”

“One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.”

“Among the most beautiful pleasures in life, love knows no rivals.”

“He forgot that the Malays revere cats and that the Chinese merely relish them.”

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

“We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.”