Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.