Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.