Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

The Benthamic standard of 'the greatest happiness' was that which I had always been taught to apply; I was even familiar with an abstract discussion of it, for…

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

The first intellectual operation in which I arrived at any proficiency, was dissecting a bad argument, and finding in what part the fallacy lay; and though wha…

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have som…

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be hap…