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- True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
- The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Emile, 1762
- Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
- We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), December 13, 1963
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
- Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.
- Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854
- Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
- Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
- Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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