When we recall the past we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.