There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
