William Lyon Phelps American Quotations

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

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

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

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.