Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
