Famous Quotes

"But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half."

Richard Cobden on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

• "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

  John Barrymore on Happiness

• "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

  Dalai Lama on Happiness

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

• "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

  Martha Washington on Happiness

• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Richard Cobden

• "The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."

• "I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."

• "In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."

• "I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments."

• "The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices."