“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect ...”

“You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.”

“Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.”