Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.