It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.