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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Human happiness never remains long in the same place.

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

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.

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