Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.