Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.