"Happiness is not an end — it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be suppos..."

"This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, s..."

"Ye seek for happiness—alas, the day! Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold, Nor in the fame, nor in the envied sway For..."