Happiness and Joy

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

All my joys to this are folly,

The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

Grow old along with me!

How sad and bad and mad it was—

Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and if God choose,

Stands the Church clock at ten to three?

Reader, I married him.

Piping down the valleys wild,

Exuberance is beauty.

Energy is Eternal Delight.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,

‘My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.’ ‘You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good company, that is the best.’

Oh! who can ever be tired of Bath?

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul’s faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue … Moreover this activity must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy.

Where there is love, there is life.

Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, Eating a Christmas pie. He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, And said, “What a good boy am I!”