The secret of happiness is something to do.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do the draughts are open and my chimney draws and I am happy.

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 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.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him and love something to be cherished by him forever.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

When you're passionate about something you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Fun I love but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.

If virtue promises happiness prosperity and peace then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us progress is always an approach toward it.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth We are happy when we are growing.

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

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

But O how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.