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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

No man is happy but by comparison.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

There are people who are unhappy with everything.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

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