are only pearls of inferior value, but tears of joy are pearls or
diamonds of the first water.--_Richter._

How many people I have seen who would have plucked cannon-balls out of
the muzzles of guns with their bare hands, and yet had not courage
enough to be happy.--_Theophile Gautier._

All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that, if you make them
happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of
it.--_Sydney Smith._

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.--_Lamotte._

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace, beloved by my
subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and
honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly
blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation,
I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which
have fallen to my lot: they amount to _fourteen_. O man, place not thy
confidence in this present world!--_The Caliph Abdalrahman._

If I may speak of myself (the only person of whom I can speak with
certainty), _my_ happy hours have far exceeded, and far exceed, the
scanty numbers of the caliph of Spain; and I shall not scruple to add
that many of them are due to the pleasing labor of the present
composition.--_Gibbon._

For which we bear to live, or dare to die.--_Pope._

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 utmo