“...avarice and stinginess [are] not frugality”
“I have come to realize that truly rich people are rich not because they are frugal or they chose to be frugal, but because they are so grateful, contented and full of self-worth that they don't have to prove anything to anyone with material possessions. This way, they appear frugal.”
“Frugality without creativity is deprivation.”
“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise”
“The true stingy is that who refrains from greeting.”
“How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”