evidence: 8) Daphne Du Maurier "Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind." [...] 21) Alexandre Dumas "Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it." [...] 27) Nathaniel Hawthorne "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained."