The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Men want to make women happy.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Money can’t buy life.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I read poetry to save time.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Many admire, few know.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.