Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristicks of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Walt Whitman·1860I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Eleanor Roosevelt·1960Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
Adam Smith·1759What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
