“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.”
“Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.”
“...for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
“If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?”