“The happiest day — the happiest hour
My sear'd and blighted heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride and power,
I feel hath flown.”

“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.”

“The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.”

“Grief hath stern and silent powers,
And her house is proud;
Not to-day’s cold guarded hours
Is despair allow'd;
But, shut out with haughty fears,
Pride with daylight disappears,
From the lovely Zegri Ladye —
The Ladye weeping there.”

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”

“On me, on me
Time and change can heap no more!
The painful past with blighting grief
Hath left my heart a withered leaf.
Time and change can do no more.”

“Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.”

“"The Happiest Days of Our Lives" on The Wall (Pink Floyd, 1979)”

“In my days of youth, I remembered my God,
And he hath not forgotten my age.”

“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”