C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Blessedness
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and & happy death.
He alone is blessed who never was born.
The harvest song of inward peace.
’T is not for mortals always to be blest.
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.
Blessedness is a whole eternity older than damnation.
And let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.