There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
My background is in health care.
Because I would give it all back to have my health.
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Happiness is very simple and minimal.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down.
History, a distillation of rumour.
