The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.