Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes a puppet, who at length can play with it, and amuse himself with what his situation makes his duty. Goethe.
Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. Hare.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. Emerson.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest 20 and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. Sen.
Happy is the man whose father went to the devil. Pr.
Happy lowly clown! / Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown! 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Carlyle.
Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. Carlyle.
Happy that I can / Be crossed and thwarted 25 as a man, / Not left in God's contempt apart, / With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, / Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize. Browning.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, / He who can call to-day his own; / He who, secure within, can say, / To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Dryden, after Horace.