Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy