"I also know that we should cultivate..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Happiness is a good that nature sells us.”

“Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”

“A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.”

“There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!”

“Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.”

“This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)”

“The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.”

“To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.”

“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”