Blessing Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he…

— Marquis de Sade

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods…

— Thomas Aquinas

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

— Marquis de Sade

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

— Benjamin Franklin

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel…

— Walter Savage Landor

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

— Jean Racine

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

— Anonymous

By giving man a free will he allows man that highest satisfaction and privilege of co-operating to his own felicity.

— Robert Boyle

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it…

— Daniel Boone

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

— Thomas Jefferson

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

— Plutarch