Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care therefore cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.