Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.