Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

I do believe that if you have not learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.