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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero. The greatest happiness of the greatest number. Beccaria—Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment). Introd. (1764) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Hutcheson) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Priestly was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth—that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Bentham—Vol. X. P. 142. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 350 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et Ubertate contentum negligere humana? What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? Brutus—to Cicero. Cicero's Letters. I. 16. 9. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 350 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days! Byron—Beppo. St. 80. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 350 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = * * * all who joy would win Must share it,—Happiness was born a twin. | author = Byron | work = Don Juan. Canto H. St. 172. There comes For ever something between us and what We deem our happiness. | author = Byron | work = Sardanapalus. Act I. Sc. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 350 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora? What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? Catullus—Carmina. LXII. 30. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Happiness | page = 350 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 21 | text = The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart. | author = John Vance Cheney | work = The Hedge-bird's Message. | topic = Happiness | page = 350 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 22 | text = In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus. | trans = We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind. | author = Cicero | work = De Natura Deorum. | place = I. 20. | topic = Happiness | page = 350 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 23 | text = Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé. | trans = Happiness seems made to be shared. | author = Corneille | work = Notes par Rochefoucauld. | topic = Happiness | page = 350 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 24 | text = If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; The world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut,—our home. | author = Nathaniel Cotton | work = The Fireside. | topic = Happiness | page = 350 }}