“Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.”

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

In love, happiness is an abnormal state.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness but boredom.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

I’m happy with the way I did my career, I wouldn’t change it in a million years. I got to do the real grafting and learning from real models when I was younger – how to open up a jacket, walk, and such.