When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

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.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.

I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.

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

Human happiness never remains long in the same place.

Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

He who would be happy should stay at home.

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.