Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever it must go out and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

For me however that beloved glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay when it strikes on a kindred heart like the converged light on a mirror it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Happiness is a byproduct of function purpose and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Politicians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself power and glory or happiness.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.