“What is earthly happiness?... Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession... Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route... She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm; but, like the mirage in the desert, she tantalizes us with a delusion that distance creates, and contiguity destroys. Yet, when unsought she is often found, and when unexpected often obtained; while those who seek for her the most diligently fail the most, because they seek her where she is not.”