"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. " — Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

All are architects of fate, working in these walls of time

Source: The Builders, The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky:

Source: Poems in Two Volumes, My Heart Leaps Up (1807)

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

Source: Ethics, part 5, proposition 42 (1677)

God made the country, and man made the town.

Source: The Task (1785)

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Quote