Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

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

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.