William Lyon Phelps Quotes

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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.

William Lyon Phelps
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

William Lyon Phelps
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.

William Lyon Phelps
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

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

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

William Lyon Phelps
The expression "as right as rain" must have been invented by an Englishman.

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

William Lyon Phelps
In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

William Lyon Phelps
My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

William Lyon Phelps
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].

William Lyon Phelps