Happiness

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Any land is your country where you can live happy.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

A small number of them may enrich a community; but a world composed of them would die of boredom.

A man may be cursed and rich; he may be blessed and poor.

Happy the man who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that chequer life!

To me an unambitious mind, content In the low vale of life, that early felt A wish to be a man, and knew the world.

I frequently sat down to meat with thankfulness, and admired the hand of God's providence, which had thus spread my table in the wilderness.

The sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.

Still thou wouldst love me, still that more than life retain.

I had enough to eat and supply my wants, and what was all the rest to me?

I had now brought my state of life to be much easier in itself than it was at first, and much easier to my mind, as well as to my body.

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen.

I am going to see my grandmamma and carry her a custard and a little pot of butter from my mamma.

Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!

That is the better to hug thee, my dear.

As he had, however, six sons and six daughters, he found that his money was not too much to let them all have everything they fancied, as they were accustomed to do.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven