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

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.