Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
Learn how to feel joy.
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Home joys are blessed of heaven.
