Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.