“Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.”

“Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.”

“Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses”

“Do not get a name either as lavish or as churlish; as a friend of rogues or as a slanderer of good men.”

“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.”

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”

“We don't know happiness without unhappiness, gaiety without sadness, and happiness can only be felt if you don't set any conditions.”

“To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.”

“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

“Accomplish more only in the best manner and not by taking away from the needy.”