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| All happiness is in the mind. | 1 |
| Better be happy nor wise. | 2 |
| Happiness flies court for garret. | 3 |
| Happiness invites envy. Latin. | 4 |
| Happy are they that have not the blood of kindred to avenge. | 5 |
| Happy he who can live in peace. French. | 6 |
| Happy he who can take warning from the mishap of others. Danish. | 7 |
| Happy is he that is happy in his children. | 8 |
| Happy is he that serveth the happy. | 9 |
| Happy is he who is content. German. | 10 |
| Happy is he who is made wary by others’ perils. Latin. | 11 |
| Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth. | 12 |
| Happy is he whose friends were born before him. | 13 |
| Happy is she who is in love with an old dotard. Italian. | 14 |
| Happy is the man who does all the good he talks of. | 15 |
| Happy is the man who keeps out of strife. Latin. | 16 |
| He is happy who knoweth not himself to be otherwise. | 17 |
| He is happy who knows his good fortune. Chinese. | 18 |
| He is not happy who knows it not. Italian. | 19 |
| He is truly happy who makes others happy. | 20 |
| He who is happy is rich enough. Sri Lankan. | 21 |
| I, myself, had been happy if I had been unfortunate in time. | 22 |
| If happiness have not her seat and centre in the breast, we may be wise, or rich, or great, but never can be blest. Burns. | 23 |
| Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps. Tillotson. | 24 |
| Neither gold nor grandeur can render us happy. La Fontaine. | 25 |
| No happiness without holiness. | 26 |
| No man can be called happy before his death. Solon’s saying to the king of Lydia. | 27 |
| No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. | 28 |
Oh, happiness! how far we flee
Thy own sweet paths in search of thee. | 29 |
| Our happiness in this world proceeds from the suppression of our desires, but in the next from the gratification. Spectator. | 30 |
| Scarcely one man in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Fielding. | 31 |
| That is but a slippery happiness that fortune can give and fortune take away. | 32 |
| The first requisite for happiness is that a man must be born in a famous city. Euripides. | 33 |
| The man that is happy in all things is more rare than the phœnix. Italian. | 34 |
| The man who would be truly happy should not study to enlarge his estate, but to contract his desires. Plato. | 35 |
| The memory of happiness makes misery woeful. | 36 |
| There is no happiness without virtue. Madame de Staël. | 37 |
| ’Tis better to be happy than wise. | 38 |
| ’Tis not good to be happy too young. | 39 |
| ’Tis only happiness can keep us young. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 40 |
| To be happy on earth one must be born in Soo Chow (a favorite place in China). Chinese. | 41 |
| To be of use in the world is the only way to be happy. Hans Andersen. | 42 |
| To make one man happy you may always calculate on making ten others miserable. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 43 |
True happiness is to no place confined,
But still is found in a contented mind. Horace. | 44 |
| We are never so happy or fortunate as we think ourselves. | 45 |
| We cannot expect always to be happy; by exercising evil as well as good, we become wiser. Hans Andersen. | 46 |
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