Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word think a kind thought. Count up if you can the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week in a year in a lifetime!

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care therefore cannot be taken in forming our principles.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Nobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both but by too much prudence may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.