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

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

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.

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 no greater disaster than not to know contentment.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.

Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.

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.