“Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!”

“In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.”

“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”

“They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier.”

“And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 4:2-3)”