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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

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

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

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