• "The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison." - Nathaniel Hawthorne Tweet
• "If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use." - John Woolman Tweet
• "We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are." - Honore de Balzac Tweet
• "Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west." - Azar Nafisi Tweet
• "The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile." - Bertrand Russell Tweet
• "I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them." - Marc Webb Tweet
• "Happiness is no laughing matter." - Richard Whately Tweet
• "Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation." - Amy Lowell Tweet
• "The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man." - William Beveridge Tweet
• "Independence is happiness." - Susan B. Anthony Tweet