To be strong
Is to be happy! [ Longfellow ]

Counsel is happiness. [ Proverb ]

Content is happiness. [ Proverb ]

He who is good is happy. [ Habbington ]

The soul's calm sunshine. [ Pope ]

Happiness is a rare cosmetic. [ G. J. W. Melville ]

Be happy, but be so by piety. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Occupation alone is happiness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

True happiness (if understood)
Consists alone in doing good. [ Thomson ]

No happiness without holiness. [ Proverb ]

Happiness is no laughing matter. [ Whately ]

Virtue alone is happiness below. [ Crabbe ]

There are no rules for felicity. [ Victor Hugo ]

Hope is a loan made to happiness.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure. [ Socrates ]

Happiness seems made to be shared. [ Corneille ]

No real happiness is found
In trailing purple over the ground. [ Parnell ]

It is ever thus with happiness;
It is the gay tomorrow of the mind,
That never comes. [ Proctor ]

Every one speaks of it, few know it. [ Mme. Roland ]

The secret of happiness is
Do a kindness to some one every day. [ Unknown ]

True wisdom is the price of happiness. [ Young ]

Happiness lies first of all in health. [ G. W. Curtis ]

Peace is the fairest form of happiness. [ William Ellery Channing ]

True happiness springs from moderation. [ Goethe ]

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of paradise that has survived the fall. [ Cowper ]

O liberty.
Parent of happiness, celestial born
When the first man became a living soul;
His sacred genius thou. [ Dyer ]

Childhood, whose very happiness is love. [ L. E. L. Erinna ]

The saddest birds a season find to sing. [ Southwell ]

True happiness never entered at an eye;
True happiness resides in things unseen. [ Young ]

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Happiness is a good that Nature sells us. [ Voltaire ]

They live too long who happiness outlive. [ Dryden ]

The dream of happiness is real happiness. [ Fontanes ]

Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere;
'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere;
'Tis never to be bought, but always free. [ Pope ]

Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines.
And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive.
What is she, but the means of happiness?
That unobtain'd, than folly more a fool. [ Young ]

Greatest happiness of the greatest number. [ Hutcheson ]

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth. [ Sheridan ]

True happiness resides in things not seen. [ Young ]

All who joy would win
Must share it - happiness was born a twin. [ Byron ]

There is no man but may make his paradise. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

All worldly happiness consists in opinion. [ Proverb ]

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Misery is everywhere, and so is happiness. [ Boufflers ]

To give happiness is to deserve happiness. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Can gold calm passion or make reason shine?
Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine?
Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less
To make our fortune, than our happiness. [ Young ]

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [ Goethe ]

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The bloom or blight of all men's happiness. [ Byron ]

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness. [ L. E. Landon ]

The memory of happiness makes misery woeful. [ Proverb ]

Just to fill the hour — that is happiness. [ Emerson ]

Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter. [ Proverb ]

None are happy but by anticipation of change. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The secret of happiness is - something to do. [ John Burroughs ]

Can wealth give happiness? look round, and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortune lavishly can pour.
The mind annihilates, and calls for more. [ Young ]

Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse. [ A. Smith ]

The learned is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more;
The rich is happy in the plenty given.
The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. [ Pope ]

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared. [ Jane Porter ]

Know then this truth (enough for man to know),
Virtue alone is happiness below. [ Alexander Pope ]

All human history attests
That happiness for man - the hungry sinner —
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner! [ Byron ]

Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality. [ Voltaire ]

Books make up no small part of human happiness. [ Frederick the Great ]

O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]

Heaven is in thy faith; happiness in thy heart. [ Arndt ]

Happiness is not the end of life; character is. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead. [ Solon ]

A grateful heart is the mainspring of happiness. [ Ossian Lang ]

Happiness is a chimaera and suffering a reality. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Hear the mellow wedding bells.
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten golden notes,
And all in tune
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listen? while she gloats
On the moon! [ Poe ]

It is in worldly accidents.
As in the world itself, where things most distant
Meet one another: Thus the east and west.
Upon the globe a mathematical point
Only divides: Thus happiness and misery.
And all extremes, are still contiguous. [ Denham ]

Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. [ Washington Irving ]

He that talks much of his happiness summons grief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whatever thy name;
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. [ Pope ]

Limiting of one's life always conduces to happiness. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

The end of government is the happiness of the people. [ Macaulay ]

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. [ Beaconsfield ]

Books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good;
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow. [ Wordsworth ]

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation. [ Racine ]

Grief counts the seconds: happiness forgets the hours. [ De Finod ]

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery. [ George Eliot ]

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things. [ Epictetus ]

Alas! that from happiness there so often springs pain. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Happiness depends not on the things, but on the taste. [ La Roche ]

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day. [ A. de Musset ]

Trifles make up the happiness or misery of mortal life. [ Alex. Smith ]

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. [ Fontanelle ]

The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent. [ Racine ]

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. [ W. R. Alger ]

One cannot be fully happy until after his sixtieth year. [ Bonstetten ]

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. [ Landor ]

Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. [ Bovee ]

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. [ Byron ]

Pride requires very costly food - its keeper's happiness. [ Colton ]

Happiness is only evident to us by deliverance from evil. [ Nicole ]

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved. [ Schiller ]

A merchant's happiness hangs upon chance, winds and waves. [ Proverb ]

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow. [ Hawthorne ]

Our happiness is but an unhappiness more or less consoled. [ Ducis ]

Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]

Virtue and happiness are but two names for the same thing. [ Proverb ]

Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happiness. [ Johnson ]

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life. [ Alexander Smith ]

The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy. [ George Hodges ]

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness. [ Pascal ]

Wisdom no more consists in science than happiness in wealth. [ De Boufflers ]

Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind. [ Antoninus ]

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike.
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. [ Balzac ]

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. [ James Hamilton ]

We are never happy: we can only remember that we were so once. [ Alexander Smith ]

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. [ George Eliot ]

The desire of happiness, beyond all doubt, is a natural desire. [ Henry van Dyke, Joy and Power ]

Sickness will spoil the happiness of an emperor as well as mine. [ Proverb ]

Gay clothing is the happiness of children and the weakest women. [ Proverb ]

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Happiness appears to be a state that comes easiest when unsought. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

Happiness is a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion. [ Quoted by Sterne ]

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant mourning of happiness. [ Mme. de Stael ]

To believe and go forward is the key to success and to happiness. [ Lilian Whiting ]

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [ Goethe ]

Since sorrow never comes too late. And happiness too swiftly flies. [ Gray ]

How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success! [ Madame Swetchine ]

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. [ Hume ]

Happiness - a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. [ Rousseau ]

How many could be made happy with the happiness lost in this world. [ Levis ]

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

Action is happiness here; and without action there can be no heaven. [ Voss ]

Love, that seldom gives us happiness, at least makes us dream of it. [ Senancourt ]

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. [ Confucius ]

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. [ Joubert ]

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Nature provides without stint the main requisites of human happiness. [ Sir John Lubbock ]

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The first indication of domestic happiness is the love of one's home. [ M. de Montlosier ]

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. [ Froude ]

Happiness is a bird that we pursue our life long, without catching it.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness. [ Fichte ]

Pleasure may come of illusion, but happiness can only come of reality. [ Chamfort ]

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. [ Dr. Watts ]

Pleasure can be supported by illusion, but happiness rests upon truth. [ Chamfort ]

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. [ Zimmermann ]

Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose veil no mortal ever raised. [ Landor ]

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. [ Amiel ]

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness. [ Byron ]

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

For to what can happiness be wisely sacrificed but to greater happiness? [ John Hawkesworth ]

To love is to ask of another the happiness that is lacking in ourselves. [ Rochepedre ]

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? [ Mrs. Oliphant ]

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praiseworthy. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The hour of happiness will come the more welcome when it is not expected. [ Horace ]

No man, be he who he may, but experiences a last happiness and a last day. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit! [ Hosea Ballou ]

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. [ Goldsmith ]

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. [ Hume ]

Prospective happiness! it is perhaps the only real happiness in the world. [ A. de Musset ]

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power. [ Hazlitt ]

Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small opportunities. [ J. L. Basford ]

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! [ William Shakespeare ]

Happiness, without peace is temporal; peace along with happiness is eternal. [ Aughey ]

She is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one. [ Burke ]

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. [ J. C. Ryle ]

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. [ Lucan ]

In love, if inconstancy gives some pleasure, constancy alone gives happiness. [ Trublet ]

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. [ Landor ]

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. [ Addison ]

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much. [ Michelet ]

Happiness consists in activity; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. [ J. M. Good ]

By forgetting ourselves in thinking of the feelings of others we gain happiness. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire. [ Duchesse de Praslin ]

It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords happiness. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. [ Scott ]

It is the setting up of a claim to happiness that ruins everything in the world. [ Merck to Goethe ]

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

That is but a slippery happiness that fortune can give and fortune can take away. [ Proverb ]

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, and women their happiness. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits. [ Claudian ]

The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams, that are bright all the time. [ Aikin ]

Beware what earth calls happiness; beware all joys but joys that never can expire. [ Young ]

To have no pain, and not be bored, is the utmost happiness possible to man on earth. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

In teaching patience and perseverance, also Nature teaches us a secret of happiness. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Happiness is neither within us nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God. [ Pascal ]

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness. [ Fichte ]

Our happiness in this world depends chiefly on the affections we are able to inspire. [ Mme. de Praslin ]

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. [ Lew Wallace ]

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. [ Chamfort ]

A happy recollection is perhaps in this world more real than the happiness it recalls. [ French ]

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. [ Arsene Houssaye ]

Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

That happiness may enter the soul, we must first sweep it clean of all imaginary evils. [ Fontanelle ]

There is an hour in each man's life appointed to make his happiness, if then he seize it. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in strangers' galleries. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

That happiness does still the longest thrive where joys and griefs have turns alternative. [ Robert Herrick ]

Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not. [ Locke ]

If happiness could be prolonged from love into marriage, we should have paradise on earth. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

To love IS a rare happiness; if it were common, it would be better to be a man than a god. [ Mme. du Chatelet ]

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today. [ Charles William Eliot ]

Happiness is an interior matter, an attitude toward life, depending on the individual soul. [ George Hodges ]

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. [ Locke ]

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of man than the discovery of a star. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

To be deprived of the person we love is a happiness in comparison to living with one we hate. [ La Bruyere ]

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy. [ L'Estrange ]

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting-point for happiness and usefulness. [ Dean Stanley ]

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and of preserving happiness. [ Horace ]

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

To invite a guest is to take the responsibility of his happiness during his stay under our roof. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely a scheme of happiness; it is also a bond of service. [ Chapin ]

Marriage is a tie that hope embellishes, that happiness preserves, and that adversity fortifies. [ Alibert ]

An old proverb attributes happiness to him who expects little and thereby avoids disappointment. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

Happiness generally depends more on the opinion we have of things, than on the things themselves. [ Proverb ]

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. [ Charles Sumner ]

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. [ Lady Blessington ]

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. [ Chalmers ]

Instead of seeking happiness by going out of our place, our skill should be to find it where we are. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. [ Henry van Dyke ]

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven. [ Hervey ]

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. [ Johnson ]

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. [ Duncan ]

That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessaries are not wanting. [ Plutarch ]

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together. [ Calderon ]

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. [ Buddha ]

The nearest we can come to perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Cheerfulness accompanies patience, which is one of the main conditions of happiness and success in life. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing. [ Chamfort ]

Woman is the most precious jewel taken from Nature's casket, for the ornamentation and happiness of man. [ Guyard ]

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom. [ Christian D. Larson ]

The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. [ Beecher ]

Before we passionately wish for anything, we should carefully examine into the happiness of its possessor. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Life is to be fortified by many friendships; to love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. [ S. Smith ]

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness. [ Hume ]

Friendships which are born in misfortune are more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness. [ D'Urfey ]

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy, and the dividing of our grief. [ Cicero ]

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. [ Schiller ]

The extension and perfection of friendship will constitute a great part of the future happiness of the blest. [ R. Whately ]

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. [ Alexander Smith ]

One of the most seductive illusions of love is to imagine that we contribute to the happiness of those we love. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]

Fortitude, justice, and candor are very necessary instruments of happiness, but they require time and exertion. [ Sydney Smith ]

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. [ E. Budgell ]

We dream such beautiful dreams, that we often lose all our happiness when we perceive that they are only dreams. [ E. Souvestre ]

The happiness of married life depends upon the power of making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. [ Selden ]

One cause of the insufficiency of riches (to produce happiness) is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. [ Johnson ]

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world. [ Pascal ]

Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance. [ Byron ]

A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own. [ John Ruskin ]

I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. [ Spectator ]

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well. [ Quarles ]

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are the perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. [ Immanuel Kant ]

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. [ Carlyle ]

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. [ Froude ]

Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be found more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy in palaces. [ Horace ]

The heart is, perhaps, never so sensible of happiness, as after a short separation from the object of its affections. [ Miss May Hamilton ]

What are the aims which are at the same time duties in life? The perfecting of ourselves and the happiness of others. [ Jean Paul ]

Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element. [ Henry Giles ]

Happiness and virtue react upon each other - the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. [ Lytton ]

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy dying, in which human happiness consists. [ Montaigne ]

Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which penetrates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears. [ M. de Guérin ]

We all drink at the spring of happiness in a fractured vase: when it reaches our lips, there is almost nothing left in it. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all. [ Horace ]

We are for the most part but the contemporaries of happiness. It is spoken of about us, but we die without having known it. [ O. Firmez ]

There is but one solid basis of happiness, and that is the reasonable hope of a happy futurity. This may be had everywhere. [ Johnson ]

Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible enjoy generally a greater share of dignity than of happiness. [ Bacon ]

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery; enough hath never caused misery but often quickened happiness. [ Tupper ]

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. [ Beaconsfield ]

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. [ Tillotson ]

The mind is the master over every kind of fortune: itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery. [ Seneca ]

I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. [ Lamartine ]

Men possessing minds which are morose, solemn, and inflexible, enjoy, in general, a greater share of dignity than of happiness. [ Bacon ]

Degrees of happiness vary according to the degrees of virtue, and consequently, that life which is most virtuous is most happy. [ Norris ]

Let us not disdain glory too much - nothing is finer except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. [ Chateaubriand ]

In health there is liberty. Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. [ Amiel ]

We are finite beings: there can be no infinite happiness for us. The soul that dreams it and pursues it will embrace but a shadow. [ Balzac ]

Our minds are as different as our faces; we are all travelling to one destination, - happiness; but few are going by the same road. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun. [ Napoleon I ]

The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them. [ From the French ]

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. [ Ouida ]

I hope you are becoming more and more interested in making those around you happy. That is the true way to secure your own happiness. [ Robert E. Lee ]

Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and happiness after death. [ Plato ]

Happiness is in taste and not in things; and it is by having what we love that we are happy, not by having what others find agreeable. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness - when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, and cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising, as a means of health and happiness. [ Timothy Flint ]

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. [ Ben. Franklin ]

The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and happiness: it is the commerce of authors, women, priests, and kings. [ Mme. Roland ]

Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing; but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. The great felicity of life, says Seneca, is to be without perturbations. [ Bovee ]

Our humble lilies of the valley and our field sparrows are wise enough to tell us of Nature's overruling care, that makes happiness possible. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

There is in all of us an obstacle to perfect happiness, which is weariness of the things we possess, and the desire for the things we have not. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

Employment, which Galen calls nature's physician, is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. [ Burton ]

Women are the happiest beings of the creation: in compensation for our services they reward us with a happiness of which they retain more than half. [ De Varennes ]

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous, of the passions: it is the only one that includes in its dreams the happiness of some one else. [ A. Karr ]

That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being together. [ Georg Ebers ]

The Stoic thought by slandering Happiness to woo her; by shunning to win her; and proudly presumed that, by fleeing her, she would turn and follow him. [ Arliss ]

There is in all of us an impediment to perfect happiness; namely, weariness of the things which we possess, and a desire for the things which we have not. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

All these are elements of happiness - love of nature, acquaintance with the wide earth, congenial intercourse with superior minds, and abiding friendships. [ Charles W. Eliot ]

Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. [ Burton ]

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven. [ Pestalozzi ]

The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

O Love! when thou findest thy true apostles on earth united in kisses, thou commandest their eyelids to close like veils, that they may not see their happiness! [ A. de Musset ]

The chance meeting, the unplanned outing, and the unexpected diversion that so often come unsought in the passing days, afford the common channels of happiness. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect. Age looks back on the happiness of youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recollection of hope. [ Coleridge ]

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. [ Thomas Fuller ]

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself. [ Izaak Walton ]

Our happiness as human beings, generally speaking, will be found to be very much in proportion to the number of things we love, and the number of things that love us. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be. [ Colton ]

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. [ Goethe ]

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

He who does not respect confidence, will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart, the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him. [ Auffenberg ]

When men neglect God, they neglect their own safety; they procure their own ruin; they fly from their own happiness; they pursue their own misery, and make haste to be undone. [ J. Mair ]

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once - through inexperience, as we now perceive - we missed that happiness we might have found! [ Cowper ]

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised by it, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. [ Pascal ]

There is this 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. [ Bacon ]

Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. [ Bolingbroke ]

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. [ Emerson ]

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed. [ Fichte ]

Virginity of the heart, alas! so soon ravished! sweet dreams! expectations of happiness' and of love! fresh illusions of the morning of life! why do you not last till the end of the day! [ Gavarni ]

Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others. [ Henry Drummond ]

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. [ Landor ]

He who allows his happiness to depend too much on reason, who submits his pleasures to examination, and desires enjoyments only of the most refined nature, too often ends by not having any at all. [ Chamfort ]

Good-nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it, and certainly to everybody who dwells with them, in so far as mere happiness is concerned. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Grief is a flower as delicate and prompt to fade as happiness. Still, it does not wholly die. Like the magic rose, dried and unrecognizable, a warm air breathed on it will suffice to renew its bloom. [ Mme. de Gasparin ]

Monotony, even under circumstances least favourable to the usual elements of happiness, becomes a happiness in itself, growing, as it were, unseen, out of the undisturbed certainty of peculiar customs. [ Lord Lytton ]

Misery is so little appertaining to our nature, and happiness so much so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us. [ Richter ]

Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making. [ Sydney Smith ]

It is so possible to be glad in the gladness of other people ; and, too, it is possible so to extend one's own life into higher regions that his happiness shall not be altogether dependent upon other people. [ Lilian Whiting ]

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. [ Whipple ]

We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [ Thomas Jefferson ]

The secret of happiness lies in the health of the whole mind, and in giving to each faculty due occupation, and in the natural order of their superiorities, the Divine first, the human second, the material last. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]

If there remains an eternity to us after the short revolution of time we so swiftly run over here, it is clear that all the happiness that can be imagined in this fleeting state is not valuable in respect of the future. [ Locke ]

The air seems made up of happiness, the clouds, the trees, the grass, the pathless birds, land and water, - all seem to pulsate happiness, to emit it, to breathe it forth upon us; and it falls upon us as dew upon flowers. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Gallantry, though a fashionable crime, is a very detestable one; and the wretch who pilfers from us in the hour of distress is an innocent character compared to the plunderer who wantonly robs us of happiness and reputation. [ Rev. H. Kelley ]

Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts. [ Whipple ]

The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention. [ Sterne ]

An honest reputation is within the reach of all men; they obtain it by social virtues, and by doing their duty. This kind of reputation, it is true, is neither brilliant nor startling, but it is often the most useful for happiness. [ Duclos ]

As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. [ George Washington ]

Try for yourselves what you can read in half-an-hour, ... and consider what treasures you might have laid by at the end of the year; and what happiness, fortitude and wisdom they would have given you during all the days of your life. [ John Morley ]

What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take: and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown. [ Quarles ]

He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who is in want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. [ Colton ]

To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy. [ Zimmermann ]

It seems as if all classes and conditions in life might learn to get more happiness out of their work. To accomplish this, more sentiment and less worry must be put into our efforts, which must also be viewed in their larger relations and possibilities. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

The reasonable worship of a just God who punishes and rewards, would undoubtedly contribute to the happiness of men; but when that salutary knowledge of a just God is disfigured by absurd lies and dangerous superstitions, then the remedy turns to poison. [ Voltaire ]

O mothers! reflect upon the power that your Maker has placed in your hands; there is no earthly influence to be compared with yours; there is no combination of causes so powerful in promoting the happiness or misery of our race, as the instructions of home! [ J. S. C. Abbott ]

The true greatness and the true happiness of a country consist in wisdom; in that enlarged and comprehensive wisdom which includes education, knowledge, religion, virtue, freedom, with every influence which advances and every institution which supports them. [ Henry Giles ]

When we think of the tenderness, of the solicitude, of the protection, of the grace, of the charm, of the happiness, or at least of the consolation that woman brings to the life of man, one is tempted to speak to her only with uncovered head, and bowed knee. [ L. Desnoyers ]

Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. [ Bentham ]

Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. [ Colton ]

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased. [ Colton ]

From the year 1789 to the year 1860 no nation has ever known a more unbounded prosperity, a fuller space of happiness. In the short space of seventy years, within the turn of a single life, the nation, poor, weak and despised, raised itself to the pinnacle of power and of glory. [ Robert C. Winthrop ]

To act with commonsense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is, and despise affectation. [ Horace Walpole ]

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good ; exercise ; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. [ Fielding ]

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and commonsense now assign to it. [ Arago ]

Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she has five grains of commonsense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value. [ Sydney Smith ]

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike; and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. [ Ruskin ]

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment. [ Chalmers ]

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder, upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life. [ Lord Greville ]