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.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.