The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. less than 1 minute read
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. less than 1 minute read
Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on. less than 1 minute read
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. less than 1 minute read
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. less than 1 minute read
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. less than 1 minute read
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. less than 1 minute read
