All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

The law is reason free from passion

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.