If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.