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.

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

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

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

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

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

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

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

O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

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

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