“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
“Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.”
“What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?”
“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”
“An empty stomach is better than full and grief is better than happiness.”
“In fact, in what’s known as “rosy prospection,” anticipation of happiness is sometimes greater than the happiness actually experienced.”