For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.