This will be triumph! this will be happiness! yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.
Source: The Stripling, Act IV, Sc. 1, 1836.
-- Joanna Baillie, (Sep 11 1762-1851), Scottish poet, dramatist; Her plays, mainly in verse, were highly praised at a period when serious drama was in decline; wrote her Plays on the Passions, 3 vol., 1798-1812.