The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.