“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”
“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
“I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”
“In places where women have achieved gender equality, for instance, men tend to be happier than women. And in places where women are still not treated equally, women are often happier than men. Other studies have shown that, despite the popular belief that nobody wants to get older, most people actually get happier after a certain age.”