The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.