A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied , but not equally happy .
Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
A peasant has not the capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. To be happy at home is the ultimate end of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.