Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.

no man,
is ever happy, no one.

In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

I'm rich. Who the hell wants to be happy?

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he is happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.