We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery.
But O how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.
The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.