Famous Quotes

"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."

William Godwin on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

• "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

  John Barrymore on Happiness

• "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

  Dalai Lama on Happiness

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

• "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

  Martha Washington on Happiness

• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by William Godwin

• "Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education."

• "As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."

• "Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."

• "My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."

• "Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."