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.

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

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.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

He who would be happy should stay at home.

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

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

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

Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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.