Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here. John in Brave New World (1932)
Work, play–at sixty our powers and tastes are what they were at seventeen. Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time reading, thinking–thinking!" Brave New World (1932)
Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. Mustapha Mond in Brave New World (1932)
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and more symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. Brave New World (1932)