“Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no one is happy.”

“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”

“The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .”

“Happiness wishes everybody happy.”

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. ”

“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake -- let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.”

“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.”