“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”

“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

“I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.”

“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”

“There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family”