The happy ending is our national belief.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.

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