A happy heart is better than a full purse.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

The surest way to relieve a man of his poverty is to make him uncomfortable in it.

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

People spend money when and where they feel good.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.