But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Power after love is the first source of happiness.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Politicians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself power and glory or happiness.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed I should instantly close with the offer.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.