It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored and life is only too short and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him and love something to be cherished by him forever.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

For happiness one needs security but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger else it must be pressed small like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are by a fixed recipe.

Whether happiness may come or not one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

People say that money is not the key to happiness but I always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity and their love to feed their pride.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.

To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.