Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.