Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator most probably from a life to misery and misfortune and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

There is a set of religious or rather moral writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine and to which we have but one objection namely that it is not true.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Money if it does not bring you happiness will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care therefore cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness not by each other's misery.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.