By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform. – Johann von Goethe

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness. – Sir Terence Conran

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. – Joseph De Maistre