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.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you do not move on.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

The secret of happiness is something to do.