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.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.