We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

We are never as unhappy as we think, nor as happy has we had hoped

happy the man who is vain enough never to praise himself, who fears his audience, and never compromises his own worth by ruffling the pride of others.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it.

He who has never hoped can never despair

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

The observation of the numerous misfortunes that attend all conditions forbids us to grow insolent upon our present enjoyments, or to admire a man's happiness that may yet, in course of time, suffer change. For the uncertain future has yet to come, with all variety of future; and to him only to whom the divinity has [guaranteed] continued happiness until the end we may call happy.

On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.