The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get