Causes

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain

The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose

A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand

If you consider what are called the virtues of mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.