Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.