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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.