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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardene...more

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mat...more

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The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is imp...more

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

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A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not goo...more

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die...more

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'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a...more

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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those w...more

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Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to kn...more