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

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

He who would be happy should stay at home.

Human happiness never remains long in the same place.

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

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

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

There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.

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.

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

Happiness is no laughing matter.