Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ...ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every da...y afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the b...eginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity,... With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since ev'ry man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity,... With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our American institutions have been friendly to her, and at this moment, I esteem it a chief felicity of this country, that it exc...els in women. A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in men, may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Women's Rights. Certainly, let her be as much better placed in the laws and the social forms, as the most zealous reformer can ask, but I confide so entirely in her inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »