The higher the general average of intelligence all things else being equal the less the disposition to be meddlesome critical and overbearing.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

If one has a good disposition what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame what is the value of other ornamentation?

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

A system of education which would not gratify this disposition in any party is requisite in order to obviate the difficulty and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

At any rate girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world the study of the fine arts and of the manners and dispositions of people.

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

It is clearly better that property should be private but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.