Fans of Charlotte Bronte may remember: “No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advic

Fans of Charlotte Bronte may remember: “No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.” - said Lucy Snow in the novel, Villette, by Charlotte Bronte.