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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.