ProseUnattainable Happiness Distance, my friend, is like the future. A dim vastness is spread before our soul;… By Goethe
ReflectionsVirtue Alone Recommend Virtue to your children; that alone, and not wealth, can ensure happiness. I speak… By Ludwig van Beethoven
ReflectionsHow Can He Be Happy That Never Felt Grief? Among advantages which adversity has, this is not the least, that, a man’s misfortunate days… By Gerolamo Cardano
PoetryA Wish This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt… By Abraham Cowley
PoetryHappiness And we, who have always thought Of happiness as rising, would feel The emotions that… By Rainer Maria Rilke
PoetryCharacter of a Happy Life How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is… By Sir Henry Wotton
PoetryLovers of Life Ego Dominus Tuus HicYet surely there are men who have made their artOut… By W. B. Yeats
PoetryContentment I weigh not fortune’s frown or smile; I joy not much in earthly joys; I… By Joshua Sylvester