Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away the unessential.