“He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways.”

“What degradation lay in being young.”

“We're not meant for happiness, you and I.”

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”

“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”

“I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy.”

“I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.”