Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity not in their happiness.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity and with respect only to the present world is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful difficult but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

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.