John Quincy Adams Quote

"Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long, / 'Tis not with me exactly so;
But 'tis so in the song. / My wants are many, and, if told,
Would muster many a score; / And were each wish a mint of gold,
I still should long for more.

Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)