The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Shaking off, with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.

One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

when all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory.

We are at the end of all our troubles, and at the beginning of happiness

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!