Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind

Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster than usual, and his shoulders swayed backwards and forwards, right and left, in the most absurd fashion; altogether he looked, so utterly had he abandoned himself to it, ignoring all other considerations, as though he were the lifeless and wire-pulled puppet of his own happiness.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.