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.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

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.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.