The happiness of society is the end of government.

Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.

Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.