"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
