If virtue promises happiness prosperity and peace then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us progress is always an approach toward it.

When ambition ends happiness begins.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Of all forms of caution caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

How to gain how to keep how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do and of all they are willing to endure.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness it is necessary to have deserved it.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.

Happiness is a hard master particularly other people's happiness.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.