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• The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
  -- Martha Washingto...
• What a pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!
  -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) -- Cato, Act iv, Sc. 4...
• If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam.
  The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home....
• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever ca
  and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. -- Lamartine...
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• Christmas comes once a year but our friendship is forever.
• What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. -- Jean Paul Richte
• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
  -- Charles Darwi...
• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity.
  If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery....