There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

A place for everything, everything in its place.