The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.