A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

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.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.