Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.