Happiness comes from within, not from without. The true seat of happiness is the mind. Compare Milton, "Paradise Lost," Book i. 254, 255:— "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."

Hesiod, "Works and Days," 705.

Plato, "Republic," ix. p. 571, D. Quoted again, "How one may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § xii.

And so Dr. Young truly says,— "A man of pleasure is a man of pains." Night Thoughts.

See "Meno," p. 72, A.