Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.

Recently I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what she had observed. 'Nothing in particular…

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

I believe it is a sacred duty to encourage ourselves and others; to hold the tongue from any unhappy word against God's world, because no man has any right to …