The groundwork of all happiness is health.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Bread milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling and break forth into other beauty besides they are her laughs.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries fire.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

The groundwork for all happiness is good health.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.