William Lyon Phelps Quotes

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.

Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?

Whenever it is possible a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

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

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

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