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

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

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

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.

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

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 have given up considering happiness as relevant.

He who would be happy should stay at home.

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

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

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.

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