“You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character. ”

“Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.”

“megan once told me that happiness is getting exactly what you want, but she thinks it's only what she wants that counts.”

“I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.”

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

“Happiness is simply a temporary condition that proceeds unhappiness. Fortunately for us, it works the other way around as well. But it's all a part of the carnival, isn't it?”

“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”

“I watch our breath leave a trail in the night sky. It’s a stolen moment of happiness in a precarious situation. A reminder that we’re only human.”

“The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.”