“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.”

“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable.”

“Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.”

“The love is happiness to be only a rotting cloth in the wound of a stranger.”

“.. that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”

“I Love The Happiness Of My Devotee. That Happiness Is (Itself) The Very (And Most Prior) Consciousness Of every conditionally Manifested being. And Happiness (Itself) Is The Conscious Light Of the world. I Am Happiness (or Love-Bliss) Itself.”

“Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.”

“Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.”

“Were I to buy this life of pleasure and this only chance at happiness with a few little dangers, where would be the harm? And wouldn’t it still be fortunate to find a weak excuse to give her proof of my love?”