“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder
“Property is the fruit of labor - property is desirable - it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something
“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted
“If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided