“Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.”

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

No man was ever great by imitation.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I’m a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I just get so happy when I think about the fact that I get to do what I love every day as a job.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world

You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don’t move on.