Happiness Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwanted jollity that brightened the faces of the people. Into this festal season of the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

— H. L. Mencken

Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune…

— R. H. Tawney

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

— H. L. Mencken

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment -…

— James Young

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but…

— Artemas Ward

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life…

— Henry James