No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.