Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive society.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle to happiness in a competitive society.

A great deal of our modern trouble has come from mixing up romantic love, which is a poetic and anarchic impulse, with marriage, which is a social institution.

A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.