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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

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

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

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