If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and p…

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the benef…

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free, 'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, 'Twi…

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.