“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”

“Make my happiness--I will make yours.”

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

“Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world.”

“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.”

“I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.”

“There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.”