This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good: that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.

Dissipate her alarms, show her that the happiness you offer her and of which she knows the price, is not an imaginary happiness.

Happiness is an elevated joy,a beatitude, existing with pain and disease, when the soul is triumphant over the body; while pleasure is transient, and comes from what is perishable.

Their happiness is the sport of every whim, and the prey of every passion that may, occasionally, or habitually, infest the master's bosom.

Her happiness is all the world to me.

"True happiness is an enemy TO pomp and noise"Ib., p. 171.

My happiness in the retirement which shortly awaits me is the ardent hope which I experience that this state of prosperity is neither deceptive nor destined to be short lived, and that measures which have not yet received its sanction, but which I can not but regard as closely connected with the honor, the glory, and still more enlarged prosperity of the country, are destined at an early day to receive the approval of Congress.

And happiness is a great power of holiness.

Besides, the happiness in view was only the indulgence of pride, or mere animal pleasure.

Happiness is the peace and harmony of the soul; pleasure comes from animal sensations, or the gratification of worldly and ambitious desires, and therefore is often demoralizing.

Avarice proceeds upon the principle that all pleasure is only negative in its operation and that the happiness which consists of a series of pleasures is a chimaera; that, on the contrary, it is pains which are positive and extremely real.

"The idea on which this piece is founded, has a good deal of merit in it; as tending to abate envy, and conciliate content; by shewing, in a variety of instances, that appearances are frequently fallacious; that perfect or permanent happiness is not the lot of mortal life; and that peace of mind and rational enjoyment are only to be found in bosoms free from guilt, and from intimate connection with the guilty.

Wedded happiness is a result of the lucky meeting of two natures, one or both of which may be accidentally so constituted as to be happy in the other's society without undue restlessness.

And thus the happiness and misery of a future state will be the just reward or punishment of promoting or preventing happiness in this.

"Happiness is the only thing of real value in existence, neither riches, nor power, nor wisdom, nor learning, nor strength, nor beauty, nor virtue, nor religion, nor even life itself, being of any importance, but as they contribute to its production.

They were both of them Fathers about the same time, Eudoxus having a Son born to him, and Leontine a Daughter; but to the unspeakable Grief of the latter, his young Wife (in whom all his Happiness was wrapt up) died in a few Days after the Birth of her Daughter.

Happiness is not an adjective to apply to God.

but these were boys with the long bright holiday before them, and happiness is almost too quiet a word to express the bounding exultation of heart, the royal and tingling sense of vigorous life, which made them shout and sing, as their boat rustled through the ripples, from a mere instinct of inexpressible enjoyment.

So happiness is two parts circumstance, ninety-eight parts mental attitude.

Thy happiness was thriftless wealth, For I could only hoard by stealth!

Yet our happiness here is a trivial matter, whereas war is a great disaster.

And again, to say with others that happiness is tranquillity of mind, is simply to beg the question.

Her parents have been shamefully deficient in her education, but have secured to her what they think the chief goodnot considering that happiness is by no means the invariable attendant of wealth.

Some would urge that happiness is only an effect, like colour.

True enough, happiness and tragedy are close partners in life's story.