He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.
Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Shopping, true feminine felicity!
A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.
Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.