Felicity quotes

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Expression #Study #Felicity

True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Consciousness #Felicity

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#States #Felicity #Stagnation

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Children #Care #Felicity

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
-- George Meredith

#Duty #Felicity #Possession

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
-- Josef Pieper

#Felicity

He frowns. "A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?
-- Libba Bray

#Gentleman #Felicity

The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.
-- Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

#Yield #Government #Felicity

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.
-- Rumi

#Play #Flutes #Felicity

There are no rules for felicity.
-- Victor Hugo

#Happiness #Felicity