With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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

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

Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a servant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Do something which arouses happiness in your own bones.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.