“The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.”

“The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge.”

“A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon.”

“Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.”

“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”