We are fully satisfied that the most solid of all earthly happiness is of the domestic kind, in a well assorted family, all the members of which set a just value on each other, and are disposed to make the happiness of each other their first object.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Thursday, August 28, 2025
Domestic Happiness
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Mann Randolph (August 7, 1794):