Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
No man is happy but by comparison.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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.