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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.

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

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

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.

He who would be happy should stay at home.