Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.