Quotes About Felicities

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

It is one of the felicities of English that we can take pieces of words from all over and fuse them into new constructions—like trusteeship, which consists of a Nordic stem (trust), combined with a French affix (ee), married to an Old English root (ship). Other languages cannot do this. We should be proud of ourselves for our ingenuity and yet even now authorities commonly attack almost any new construction as ugly or barbaric.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live; and unto such as consider none hereafter, it must be more than death to die, which makes us amazed at those audacities that durst be nothing and return into their chaos again. Certainly such spirits as could contemn death, when they expected no better being after, would have scorned to live, had they known any.