"A happy family is but an earlier heaven" — George Bernard Shaw

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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

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

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

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Source: The Task (1785)

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others.

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments, part 1 (1759)

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

Source: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself (1892 edition)

George Bernard Shaw Quote