Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.