"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship."
- Joseph Addison
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief."
"Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments."
"A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is."
"True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
"The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness."
"If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not ..."
"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is."
"True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few ..."
"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for."