"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided...." - Quote by Alphonse Karr

“Flowing water is at once a picture and a music, which causes to flow at the same time from my brain, like a limpid and murmuring rivulet, sweet thoughts, charming reveries, and melancholy remembrances.”

“I am thankful that thorns have roses.”

“Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.”

“He is the richest who is content with the least.”

“True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.”

“Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.”

“The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.”

“There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.”

“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.”