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

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

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

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

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