“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ”

“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines”

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness”

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”

“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves”