The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. And the man who is content with little is rich, while the man who is always wanting more is poor, though he have the world's wealth.

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. It is strange that the most brutal of passions should be the most spiritual.

It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more. Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.

It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the man who hankers after more.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? The appetite grows with eating; the more one has, the more one wants.