"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

"Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction"

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."

"By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."

"The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression."

"He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel."

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."

"It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."

"The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature."

"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."

"Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness."

"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."

"A multitude of small delights constitute happiness"

"In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.."

"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!"

"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."

"The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition."

"Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind."

"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."

"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

"To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy."

"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."