Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

NOTHING contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity

Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives

May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory