Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

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

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

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

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

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.

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.

In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.

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

All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.