Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
Mary MacLane
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and... →
James Madison
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.