For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. 806
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. 576
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one’s own family. 610
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. 571
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. 1.11K
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. 557
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. 607
