Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.