Monday, October 31, 2022

Happiness is retiring to the country with your friends


 All hail, ye fields, where constant peace attends!
All hail, ye sacred, solitary groves!
All hail, ye books, my true, my real friends,
Whose conversation pleases and improves!

-- William Walsh (1663-1708)

Friday, October 14, 2022

Happiness is a silver saucepan


 If your butter when melted tastes of brass, it is your master's fault who will not allow you a silver saucepan. 

-- Jonathan Swift

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Happiness is freedom from anxiety


 To be happy, is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience, and tranquillity of mind.

-- John Tillotson (1630-1694)