To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

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

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.