“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do”

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness”

“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty”

“The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy ”

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale”