Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.