Song, "Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content", line 1, from Farewell to Folly (1591); Dyce p. 309.
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown…”
Source: Greene's Farewell to Folly (1591)
Context: Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown;
Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent;
The poor estate scorns fortune’s angry frown;
Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss;
Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss”
“The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow
Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.”
Epistle to George William Curtis (1874)
“A mind content both crown and kingdom is.”
Song, "Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content", line 12, from Farewell to Folly (1591); Dyce p. 309.
“In the whole range of evil thoughts, none is richer in resources than self-esteem.”
On Discrimination, vol. 1, p. 46
The Philokalia
“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.”
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines Written in Early Spring, st. 1 (1798).
“I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!”
Variant: To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 1.
Lucasta (1649)
The poor Man's , reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistle to Mrs. Higgons (1690), line 79; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Contentment", p. 133-36.
