Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.