Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
