“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher
“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
“If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.