Happiness must ensue, not be pursued.
The desire of happiness in general is so natural to us that all the world is in pursuit of it.
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind is brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the joy as it flies, seven Lives in Eternity's sunrise.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.