It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by not being shared is not big enough to make us happy.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blest.