and as we lay and smoked the pipe of peace and compared all this luxury with the years of tiresome city life that had gone before it, we felt that there was only one complete and satisfying happiness in the world, and we had found it.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

If you want to make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

One who understands the limits of the good life knows that what eliminates the pains brought on by need and what makes the whole of life perfect is easily obtained, so that there is no need for enterprises that entail the struggle for success.19

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

There are more important things in life than boxing.

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.