Felicity Quotes
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.
