"Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office"

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling"

"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances"

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something"

"Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it"

"The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"