Echoes

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, compassionate.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Virtue is serious business; everything else is farce.

Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.

Faith is the best wealth for a man in this world. Righteousness when well practised brings happiness. Truth is the sweetest of flavours. They say the life of one living by wisdom is the best.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

We place the happy life in the security of the mind and in freedom from all obligations.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

My life is my message.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Go forth in virtue!

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.