There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.

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

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

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

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.

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

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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

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

In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

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

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