The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be ….

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable..

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable..

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for..

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable..