[TheyConvictedOglethorpe]

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

-- H.L. Mencken

[CCWoody]

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Perhaps this then:

For ye had compassion on me in my bonds and took joyfully the despoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.

[Kevin Curry]

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- H.L. Mencken

Anyone who has read H.L. Mencken extensively knows that he was the most bitter and miserable old fart ever to put three words together.