We buy wisdom with happiness, and who would purchase it at such a price?
To be happy we must forget the past, and think not of the future; and
who that has a soul or mind can do this? No one; and this proves that
those who have either know no happiness on this earth. Memory precludes
happiness, whatever Rogers may say or write to the contrary, for it
borrows from the past to embitter the present, bringing back to us all
the grief that has most wounded, or the happiness that has most charmed
us.--_Byron._
The happiness you wot of is not a hundredth part of what you
enjoy.--_Charles Buxton._
Every human soul has the germ of some flowers within; and they would
open if they could only find sunshine and free air to expand in. I
always told you that not having enough of sunshine was what ailed the
world. Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarreling, or
a tenth part of the wickedness there is.--_Mrs. L. M. Child._
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy, and can make them
wretched.--_Feltham._
Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds
whereof we know not.--_Locke._
There comes forever something between us and what we deem our
happiness.--_Byron._
Philosophical happiness is to want little; civil or vulgar happiness is
to want much, and to enjoy much.--_Burke._
How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce
beyond an hour.--_Young._