“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery.

Literature is my Utopia

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man’s affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

They sold us the idea of happiness at the price of actual happiness.

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.

I am happy even before I have a reason.

Let the ocean worry about being blue.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.