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

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

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

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

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.

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

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

There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.

There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.

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.

Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.

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.