• The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

    Thomas Jefferson: The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
    Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.103