I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one’s resources. Andrew Carnegie

It is good to be a cynic – it is better to be a contented cat – and it is best not to exist at all.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

Man’s happiness really lies in contentment. He who is discontented, however much he possesses, becomes a slave to his desires.

Contentment makes poor men rich. Discontent makes rich men poor.