Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.
What's well begun is half done.
Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?
Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea.