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

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

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

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

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

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

When ambition ends, happiness begins.