“We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.”

“A house is built with wood and medalA home is built with love and happiness”

“A heart is made of proteins built by amino acids, animated by electrical impulses.”

“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us.”

“All happiness is built upon small efforts.”

“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”