Happiness is the rescue dog who rescued the boy who rescued him

 

Happiness is fair weather for the harvest

 If weather be faire and tidie, thy grain

Make speedilie carriage, for fear of a raine.

-- Thomas Tusser

Happiness is an old British confection

 Let sugar, wine, and cream together club,

To make that gentle viand, syllabub.

 

-- William King (1663-1712)