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To admit that this picture has its shades is but to say that it is still the condition of men upon earth.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.

The spectacle is exhibited to the world of a government deriving its powers from the consent of the governed and having imparted to it only so much power as is necessary for its successful operation.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

We classify too much and enjoy too little.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Observe continually that all things exist in change; and keep this thought ever with you, that Nature loves nothing more than changing what things now are, and making others like them.

Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice.

Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.

Overlooking partial and temporary evils as inseparable from the practical operation of all human institutions, and looking only to the general result, every patriot has reason to be satisfied.

None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

One thing you can depend on people being…is people.

Who has not known those silent moments which separated the lips to reunite the souls?

Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

The beauty of our system of government consists, and its safety and durability must consist, in avoiding mutual collisions and encroachments and in the regular separate action of all, while each is revolving in its own distinct orbit.

In love there is no first nor last!

Success is the child of two very plain parents--punctuality and accuracy.