It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Columbus gave the world another world.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.