Do
not speak of your happiness to one less
fortunate than yourself.
-- Plutarch
46-120 AD, Greek
Essayist, Biographer
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal
acres bound, content to breathe his native air
in his own ground.
-- Alexander Pope
1688-1744,
British Poet, Critic, Translator
Know then this truth, enough for man to know
virtue alone is happiness below.
-- Alexander Pope
1688-1744,
British Poet, Critic, Translator
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a
thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its
original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred
heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it
reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is
not perfected till it is shared.
-- Jane Porter
1776-1850,
British Novelist
