Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
I got offered that role in Transamerica that Felicity Huffman did. That was a part that I was like, "Well, maybe I should've done that. " I'm at peace with it, but that is one thing that I did turn down that went on to do great things for her. I wonder what would've happened if I would've done that.
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search. . . for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.
Nature's old felicities.
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity. . . The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.
