“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.”
“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures costs nothing and conveys much.”
“Expensive pleasures will soon bring the richest person down.”
“Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.”
“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”