"There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy."
"They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them."
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Source: Stately as a Galleon by Joyce Grenfell, English Lit., 1978.
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