Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Constant happiness is the philosopher’s stone of the soul.[Prétendre être toujours heureux est la pierre philosophale de l’âme.]
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!
Before passionately craving something, we should ascertain how happy are those who possess it.[Avant que de désirer fortement une chose, il faut examiner quel est le bonheur de celui qui la possède.]
Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.
Be happy, but be so through piety.[Soyez heureux mais soyez-le par la piété.]
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.[Надо, чтобы за дверью каждого довольного, счастливого человека стоял кто-нибудь с молоточком и постоянно напоминал бы стуком, что есть несчастные.]
And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more – to learning. Always.
And now she could not bring herself to believe that the uneventful life she was leading was the happiness of which she had dreamed.[Et elle ne pouvait s’imaginer à présent que ce calme où elle vivait fût le bonheur qu’elle avait rêvé.]
