★ A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. 知足是人生在世最大的幸事。——Joseph Addison, American writer 美国作家艾迪生. J.

　　★ A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. 终身幸福！这是任何活着的人都无法忍受的，那将是人间地狱。——G. Bernard Shaw, British dramatist 英国剧作家肖伯纳. G.

　　★ A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. 写得很好的生活和过得很好的生活几乎一样少。——Thomas Carlyle, British historian and essayist 英国历史学家、散文家卡莱尔. T.

　　★ Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distress. 无所事事不是休息，十分空虚的心灵是痛苦的心灵。——William Cowper, British poet英国诗人考伯. W.

　　★ All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, and self-denial, and study. 我们得到的一切幸福都是劳动、辛苦、自我克制和学习的成果。——William Graham Sumner, American sociologist 美国社会学家萨姆纳. W. G.

　　★ Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall not be disappointed. 一无所求的人是幸福的，因为他永远也不会失望。——Alexander Pope. British Poet 英国诗人蒲伯. A.

★ Call no man happy till he dies; he is at best but fortunate. 人不进棺材，谁也称不上幸福，而至多不过是幸运。——Solon, ancient Athenian statesman 古雅典政治家梭伦

　　★ For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. 在所有不幸中，最不幸的事是曾经幸福过。——A. M. S. Boethius, Ancient Roman statesman 古罗马政治家伯修斯. A. M. S.

　　★ Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ garden. 幸福生长在我们自己的火炉边，而不能从别人的花园中采得。——D. W. Jerrold, British dramatist 英国剧作家杰罗尔德. D. W.

　　★ Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. 幸福是一只蝴蝶，你要追逐它的时候，总是追不到；但是如果你悄悄地坐下来，它也许会飞落到你身上。 ——N. Hawthorn, American writer 美国作家霍桑. N.

　　★ Happiness is a form of courage. 幸福是勇气的一种形式。——H. Jackson, British writer 英国作家杰克逊. H.

 
　　★ Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. 幸福是想象中的东西。从前，生者认为死者幸福；现在则是大人认为孩子幸福，而孩子则认为大人幸福。——Szasz Thomas, American psychiatrist 美国精神病学家托马斯. S.

　　★ Happiness is a way station between too much and too little. 幸福是太多和太少之间的一站。——C. Pollock, British jurist 英国法学家波洛克.C.

　　★ Happiness is not a goal，it is a by-product. 幸福不是目的，而是一种副产品。——Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, American president’s wife——美国总统罗斯福的夫人埃莉诺

　　★ Happiness is not something you experience; it’s something you remember. 幸福不是你经历的事，而是你记得的事。——O. Levant, American pianist 美国钢琴家利万特

　　★ Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.与其说人类的幸福来自偶尔发生的鸿运，不如说来自每天都有的小实惠。————Benjamin Franklin, American president美国总统富兰克林.B.

　　★ Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left. 勤劳是财富的右手，节俭是她的左手。————John Ray, American naturalist 美国博物学家雷伊. J