“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.”
“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.”
“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
“By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man–every man–is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose”
“I see man as a hero. With his own happiness as his moral obligation; productive achievementbas his noblest activity and reason as the only absolute.”
“Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.”