There is a set of religious or rather moral writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine and to which we have but one objection namely that it is not true.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

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.

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object and pursue it for life.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

The great object is that every man be armed.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

I forget what the relevant American rate is but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7 and that's our - our government's objective.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

The rights of persons and the rights of property are the objects for the protection of which Government was instituted.

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

For if a good speaker never so eloquent does not see into the fact and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?