What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness.