It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.