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

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

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.

Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.

There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.