Quotes: Happiness

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. It doesn’t guarantee our rights to charity.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.