Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself. Cervantes.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in History's book. Montesquieu.
Happy thou art not; / For what thou hast not still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgett'st. Meas. for Meas. iii. 1.
Happy who in his verse can gently steer, / 30 From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. Dryden.
Hard is the factor's rule; no better is the minister's. Gael. Pr.
Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see who can pound the longest. Wellington at Waterloo.
Hard with hard builds no houses; soft binds hard. Pr.
Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other. Ben. Franklin.
Hardness ever of hardiness is mother. Cymbeline, 35 iii. 6.
Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. John Neal.