If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.