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

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

Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.

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

He who would be happy should stay at home.

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.

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

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

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

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

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

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

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