“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.”

“It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.”

“Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”

“Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.”

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove”

“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”

“Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”