True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. – Helen Keller
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. – Helen Keller
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne