Power after love is the first source of happiness.
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do the draughts are open and my chimney draws and I am happy.
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
When we recall the past we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Every day is a new day and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
I hump the wild to take it all in there is no bag limit on happiness.
Money may not buy happiness but it can damn well give it!
The founders of a new colony whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery and another portion as the site of a prison.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care therefore cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.