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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Happiness |
| I think you the happiest couple in the world; for you’re not only happy in one another, but happy in yourselves, and by yourselves. Congreve.—The Double Dealer, Act II. Scene 2. | 1 |
| If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies; And they are fools who roam: The world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home. Cotton.—The Fireside, Verse 3. | 2 |
| O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes! Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act V. Scene 2. (Orlando.) | 3 |
| O hell! to choose love by another’s eye! Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I. Scene 1. (Hermia to Lysander.) | 4 |
| True happiness ne’er entered at an eye; True happiness resides in things unseen. Dr. Young.—Night VIII., Line 1021. | 5 |
| Oh happiness! our being’s end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate’er thy name: That something still which prompts th’ eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. Pope.—Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 1. | 6 |
| The happy have whole days, and those they choose; The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. Colley Cibber.—The Double Gallant, Act V. Scene 1. | 7 |
| But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentle stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend! Thomson.—Spring; near the end. | 8 |
| When two events propitious meet, They make the span of life most sweet. Wheelwright’s Pindar, 5th Isthmian Ode, Line 11. | 9 |
| Happy the man, and he alone, Who, master of himself, can say, To-day at least hath been my own, For I have clearly lived to-day: Then let to-morrow’s clouds arise, Or purer suns o’erspread the cheerful skies. Francis’ Horace, Book III. Ode 29; Dryden.—To Sir John Beaumont. | 10 |
| For next, a truth which can’t admit Reproof from Wisdom or from Wit, To being happy here below, Is to believe that we are so. Churchill.—The Ghost, Book IV. Line 285. | 11 |
| Happy the man, whom bounteous gods allow With his own hands paternal grounds to plough. Cowley.—Epode, Ode II. Book V. | 12 |
| Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Pope.—Ode on Solitude, Verse 1. | 13 |
| How happy could I be with either, Were t’other dear charmer away! But, while ye thus tease me together, To neither a word will I say. Gay.—The Beggar’s Opera, Act II. Scene 2. | 14 |
| Call no man happy. Sophocles.—Œdipus Tyrannus, Line 1529. (Translated by Buckley.) Herodotus.—(Ramage’s Thoughts from Greek Authors, 143.) | 15 |
| He who is good is happy. Habbington.—Epi. to W. E. | 16 |
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