Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Happiness depends upon ourselves

The will of man is his happiness.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Happy the man, of mortals happiest he,
Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;
Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,
But lives at peace, within himself content;
In thought, or act, accountable to none
But to himself, and to the gods alone.

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

Man — every man — is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.”
[In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.