William Lyon Phelps

(60 votes)   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.

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

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(290 votes)   The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

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(180 votes)   The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. 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. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.

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(152 votes)   Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

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(130 votes)   God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

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(126 votes)   I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

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(105 votes)   I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

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(102 votes)   One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

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(92 votes)   The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

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(91 votes)   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.

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(59 votes)   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.

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(52 votes)   A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

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(52 votes)   In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

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(49 votes)   The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

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