From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about is happiness enough to get their work done.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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

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

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.