“Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.”
Washington Irving
“They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.”
Oscar Wilde
“How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.”
Catharine Esther Beecher
“The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.”
Benjamin Franklin
“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”
Samuel Johnson
