From The Spectator, Volume One, by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
NO ILL MAXIM
"It would methinks be no ill maxim of life, if, according to that ancestor of SIR ROGER home I lately mentioned, every man would point to himself what sum he would resolve not to exceed. He might by this means cheat himself into tranquility on this side of that expectation, or convert what he should get above it to nobler uses than his own pleasures or necessities. This temper of mind would exempt a man from an ignorant envy of restless men above him, and a more inexcusable contempt of happy men below him."
From No. 114, Wednesday, July 11, 1711 (Steele)
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