No Man can be perfectly Happy; but if he be either Curious, or Unsteady,
he shall Live and Die Craving, and in a Restless Want of something or
other that is never to be had. Wherefore we should do well to Weigh our
Present Inconveniences against Those that may probably arise in the
Future, and not so much as to think of Changing our Condition till we
have Ballanc’d the Accounts. We may lay down This, in short, for a Rule
without any Exception, that Nothing but a Fool or a Madman will Wish any
thing to be Other then as God has Made it. Let us Reform our Lives, and
Mend our Manners, and set Every thing Right at Home first, before we take
upon us to Correct the Works of Providence and Nature. The Husbandman
thought Corn would do better without Beards, till he found that according
to the Way he went to Work, he should have neither _One_ nor _T’other_.