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.

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

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

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.

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 does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.

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.

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

Happiness is no laughing matter.

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

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