"The sacrifices required in the Christian life are necessary to emancipate the soul, and raise it above its servile dependence on condition. They are losses of mere happiness, and for just that reason they are preparations of joy."

"We're charm'd with distant views of happiness, But near approaches make the prospect less."

"True happiness is to no spot confined. If you preserve a firm and constant mind, 'Tis here, 'tis everywhere."

"For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart; And makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye."

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."

"Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heavens above, And the road below me."

"Be happy, but be happy through piety."

"Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it."

"Magnificent spectacle of human happiness."

"Ye seek for happiness—alas, the day! Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold, Nor in the fame, nor in the envied sway For which, O willing slaves to Custom old, Severe taskmistress! ye your hearts have sold."

"Non potest quisquam beate degere, qui se tantum intuetur, qui omnia ad utilitates suas convertit; alteri vivas oportet, si vis tibi vivere."

"O mother, mother, what is bliss? O mother, what is bale? Without my William what were heaven, Or with him what were hell?"

"Des Menschen Wille, das ist sein Glück."

"Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises."

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"Le bonheur des méchants comme un torrent s'écoule."

"Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.""

"Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so."

"Dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet."

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet."

"No eye to watch and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us."

"And feel that I am happier than I know."

"Neminem, dum adhuc viveret, beatum dici debere arbitrabatur."

"Sive ad felices vadam post funera campos, Seu ferar ardentem rapidi Phlegethontis ad undam, Nec sine te felix ero, nec tecum miser unquam."

"Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God wills it."

"Happiness, to some elation; Is to others, mere stagnation."

"A sound Mind in a sound Body, is a short but full description of a happy State in this World."

"On n'est jamais si heureux, ni si malheureux, qu'on se l'imagine."

"Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitæ, Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra."

"Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."

"Upon the road to Romany It's stay, friend, stay! There's lots o' love and lots o' time To linger on the way; Poppies for the twilight, Roses for the noon, It's happy goes as lucky goes, To Romany in June."

"That Action is best which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions misery."

"Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui Deorum Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati, Pejusque leto flagitium timet."

"Fuge magna, licet sub paupere tecto Reges et regum vita procurrere amicos."

"And there is ev'n a happiness That makes the heart afraid."

"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt."

"Now happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool."

"Das beste Glück, des Lebens schönste Kraft Ermattet endlich."

"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own."

"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."

"Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé."

"In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus."

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

"Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?"

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

"all who joy would win Must share it,—Happiness was born a twin."

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

"Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?"

"Priestly was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth—that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero."