Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.