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William Lyon Phelps Quotes and Quotations
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy? If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow. That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now? One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now? The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century. Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. |