“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
“The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice
“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable
“At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful
“May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and your troubles but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love
“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something
“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys
“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him