There is nothing higher than reason.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.
When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.