Quotes about "Happiness & Joy"

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. ”

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. ”

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. ”

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. ”

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. ”

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. ”

Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone? ”

There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else. ”

It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him. ”

How nations and races of men are to be so governed as may be most conducive to the improvement and happiness of all is one of the most interesting questions that can be offered to our consideration. ”