“If you have no more happiness to give me, / Well then! you still have your pain.”

“If you have no more happiness to give:Give me your pain.”

“You will have to multiply many times your two-fold being and complicate your complexities still further. Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to absorb more and more of the world and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded soul, if you are ever to find peace.”

“If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.”

“In life, you have the choice to be compassionate and kind. Be able to laugh at yourself. Give more to others and you will be happy.”

“In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”