No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other government--because there are so many connections and dependencies to be studied.