It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.