The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

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.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

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

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.