Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as stedfastly believe.