Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

While there's life, there's hope.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.