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

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

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.

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