More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.