He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 668
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. 636
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness. 674
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. 647
The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. 603
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. 1.19K
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. 648
