The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.
Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
Those things that hurt, instruct.
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.