“Happiness is egotistical.”

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

“I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.”

“A man is always in a hurry to be happy.”

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”

“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”