A search for true happiness is found when you look no further than your forehead.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

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.

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.

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

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

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.