It belongs to Nature, not to me. Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. As for the lives of one's neighbors, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern. Besides, Individualism has really the higher aim.
Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
Yes, we are overcharged for everything nowadays. I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. One has to pay in other ways but money. Lord Henry shrugged his shoulders. One can use them in fiction, of course.