We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness it is necessary to have deserved it.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul.

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.