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I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

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Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good b...more

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…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

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Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

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But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

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…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

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She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she onl...more

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Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the...more