We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

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

Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.