Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment by every man of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Wealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time watching hunger nakedness dizziness in the head weakness in the stomach and other inconveniences.

Treat those who are good with goodness and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Working with plants trees fences and walls if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Clearly some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment and at last despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.