But what is happiness?
Money?
possessions?
power?
No, none of these.

I possessed them all, and yet I was not happy.

Let his soul be rich, and then he will be happy.
Let him be an honourable, wise, courageous citizen, a good patriot, a nobleman not merely by name, but in heart and soul, and then he will be happy.
"I am well aware," pursued Karpathy, "that if I left my son in the guardianship of his nearest relative--I allude to my nephew Bela--it would mean his utter ruin.

I charge that kinsman of mine before God's judgment-seat with being a bad man, a bad relative, a bad patriot, who would be even worse than he is if he were not as mad as he is bad.

No! I will not have the heart of my boy ruined by such a man as that.