Home-keeping hearts are happiest. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch and force the way;
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]
The wisest, happiest of our kind are they
That ever walk content with Nature's way. [ Wordsworth ]
The happiest life consists in knowing nothing. [ Soph ]
The loveliest flowers the closest cling to earth,
And they first feel the sun: so violets blue;
So the soft star-like primrose - drenched in dew -
The happiest of spring's happy, fragrant birth. [ Keble ]
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. [ W. R. Alger ]
He is the happiest who renders the greatest number happy. [ Desmakis ]
Of all men, Adam was the happiest - he had no mother-in-law. [ P. Parfait ]
The happiest word is scorned, if the hearer has a twisted ear. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. [ George Eliot ]
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living. [ Steele ]
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. [ Shelley ]
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it' with the happiest terms I have. [ William Shakespeare ]
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. [ Duncan ]
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of Work. [ Anthony Trollope ]
The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, but that which renders the greatest number happy. [ Charles P. Duclos ]
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. [ Landor ]
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men. [ Langford ]
Happiness and virtue react upon each other - the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. [ Lytton ]
We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions. [ Goethe ]
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasures takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
The happiest lot for a man as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. [ Whately ]
Women are the happiest beings of the creation: in compensation for our services they reward us with a happiness of which they retain more than half. [ De Varennes ]
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work. [ Cicero ]
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. [ Bacon ]
That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other - that is a sad riddle! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
That constant desire of pleasing, which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it scarcely ever fails of attaining its ends, when not disgraced by affectation. [ Fielding ]
We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself. [ Trench ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]