Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites passions and affections.

Happiness... consists in giving and in serving others.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God by which also God is magnified and exalted.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends but in the worth and choice.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future because to live consists inexorably in doing in each individual life making itself.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed and how he will dispose of its products.

Freedom morality and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so but because he freely conceives it wants it and loves it.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain which is the positive element of life.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like but in having the right to do what we ought.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind yet not apart from the world of natural phenomena.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.