Let me hasten to that which cost me my Life, and Narcissa her Happiness.

This tranquillity and satisfaction form a state of mind capable of receiving from the Lord the love of uses; and from the reception of this love springs heavenly happiness, which is the life of the above-mentioned joys.

Never was happiness more visibly impressed or more keenly felt than by the youthful Countess.

Since by our shameful conduct we have lost Freedom, wealth, honour, which we value most, I wish they would our lives a period give: They live too long, who happiness out-live.

Nothing is small which affects not merely the temporal happiness, but the eternal welfare, of an immortal soul.

And doth he not say, 'The happiness thereof is a care unto me'?

To make part of the pretty pageant of the "Brides of Venice," which took place on Lady Day in San Pietro in Castello, the maidens, all in white with floating hair, their dower-boxes fastened by ribbons from their shoulders, had seemed to Toinetta, as she stood each year an onlooker in the admiring crowd, a happiness devoutly to be desired.

"We may wish them worldly happiness, and spiritual consolation, as part of the human race; but political and specific prayers, in times like these, are to be used with caution.