There is only one thing worth having in this life, and that is happiness.

Even the possibility of it is worth all other possibilities put together.

If a man have a chance of grasping happiness--I mean a home and the wife he wants....

and all that--he is wise to throw all other chances to the wind.

Such, for instance, as the chance of greatness, of fame or wealth, of gratified vanity or satisfied ambition." He had spoken slowly, and at last he ceased speaking, as if overcome by a growing drowsiness.