“marriage is likely to be what is called happy if niether party ever expected to get much happiness out of it”

“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”

“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.”

“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”

“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.”

“a certain amount of boredom is...essential to a happy life”

“Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.”