" Sang the nightingale, "Contentment is the greatest happiness.

"Contentment is a common noun, of the third person singular."Id.

"'Contentment is natural wealth' says Socrates to which I shall add 'luxury is artificial poverty.'

" "Well," said she, "contentment is a great blessing in every station, though I have never tried it in yours.

"contentment is a noun common, of the third person singular.

Theodore's contentment in such a case is a theme for the moralista better moralist than I. The best and purest mortals are an odd mixture, and in none of us does honesty exist on its own terms.

" Contentment again is the keynote of the couplets on the owl: "If an owl would enter the nuthatch's nest Its figure would have to be much compressed.

We are apt to suppose people are unhappy for the reason that, were we taken from our present situation of independence and placed in their situation of dependence, we should be unhappy; not considering that contentment is the foundation of happiness.