The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.