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Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Priestly was the first who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

. . . all who joy would win Must share it.--Happiness was born a twin.

There comes For ever something between us and what We deem our happiness.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; The world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut,--our home.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.