Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Happiness was not made to be boasted but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.

More company increases happiness but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Happiness or misery is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator most probably from a life to misery and misfortune and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

There is a set of religious or rather moral writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine and to which we have but one objection namely that it is not true.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Money if it does not bring you happiness will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.