And of all illumination which human reason can give none is comparable to the discovery of what we are our nature our obligations what happiness we are capable of and what are the means of attaining it.

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment by every man of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Wealth like happiness is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something while to secure it in this world we must do something.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.