Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

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.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

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.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.