Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

To fill the hour,-that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy

I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

One can bear grief, but it takes two to be glad.