The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. 607
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. 656
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. 1.88K
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. 616
