A large income is the best recipe for happiness

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Mary Crawford

Source

Mansfield Park, Chapter XXII. Spoken by Mary Crawford to Edmund Bertram in Fanny Price’s presence.

Context

While Fanny is visiting Mansfield Parsonage, Mary Crawford dismisses the domestic inconveniences of country life by declaring that she intends to be rich enough not to feel them. Edmund answers with a more restrained view of wealth and happiness.