Recipe for a Happy Life (Cosimo Classics History)

In the year 1500 Queen Margaret of Navarre wrote her recipe for a happy life which includes ingredients such as patience pastimes repose and peace pleasant memory and hope and loves magic drops. Picking up these themes Marie West King has selected passages from literature that expand on Queen Margarets suggestions. Represented are Ralph Waldo Emerson (A day for toil an hour for sport) George Washington (Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called Conscience) Plato (Self conquest is the greatest of victories) and William Shakespeare (Love comforteth like sunshine after rain). Readers will find that this simple recipe still stands the test of time.