What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.