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.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

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.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

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.

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

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 is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.

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

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.