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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.