The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

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

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

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

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.