It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, … — Edmund Spenser

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. — Michel de Montaigne
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. — Ann Landers
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? — Princess Diana
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. — Edmund Spenser
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. — Edmund Spenser
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser