This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

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.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends but in the worth and choice.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy cheerful rhetoric to them but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans human nature and the human future.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future because to live consists inexorably in doing in each individual life making itself.

The prospects for a coherent hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year as the poor waterlogged gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed and how he will dispose of its products.

Freedom morality and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so but because he freely conceives it wants it and loves it.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain which is the positive element of life.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like but in having the right to do what we ought.