We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth. Richard Nixon means never having to say you're sorry. Happiness is different from pleasure.
Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. Baloney is flattery so thick that it can not be true and blarney is flattery so thin that we like it. Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy.