Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

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

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.