Sorrow prepares you for joy.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Such sober certainty of walking bliss.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.