You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
We must be doing something to be happy.
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.