If A Man Is Happy

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.

None Meet Life Honestly And Few Heroically.

One Cannot Live Through A Long Stretch Of Years Without Forming Some Philosophy Of Life.

Laws Have Come Down To Us From Old Customs And Folk-ways Based On Primitive Ideas Of Man's Origin, Capacity And Responsibility.

Everything Serious That He Says Is A Joke And Everything Humorous That He Says Is Dead Serious.