It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.