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. 682
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. 645
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness. 681
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. 660
The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. 615
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. 1.2K
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. 658
