When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

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

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

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.