"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
"Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered action."
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."

"From good parents comes a good son."

"A man naturally expects honour for anything in which he excels."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

[definition of friendship]
" one soul inhabiting two bodies."

"Hope is a waking dream."