A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
