Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

George Eliot

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

Victor Hugo

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind – intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

D. H. Lawrence

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Pierre Corneille

Love is trembling happiness.

Khalil Gibran

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

A dog's wagging tail is a universal language of happiness that brightens even the darkest days.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Henry David Thoreau