Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.