If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.

When your soul is satisfied, you have everything even if you have nothing. And when your soul is not at peace, you have nothing no matter what you have attained or acquired.

We display the success of what we have done by not having to do anything.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltiness of those dead sea apples.

Be satisfied with what you have.

Can't always have life the way we want it. But there's always pizza.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.