Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

The question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a stat…

The Benthamic standard of 'the greatest happiness' was that which I had always been taught to apply; I was even familiar with an abstract discussion of it, for…

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

Jamais nous ne goutons de parfaite allegresse: Nos plus heureux succes sont meles de tristesse.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other wi…