There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

We can only know others by ourselves.

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.