"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and..." - Quote by Henry Van Dyke

“You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.”

“Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.”

“The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.”

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things.”

“We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.”

“Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.”

“Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.”

“People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself”

“Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.”