Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

happy the man who is vain enough never to praise himself, who fears his audience, and never compromises his own worth by ruffling the pride of others.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

The will of man is his happiness.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.