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

— William Lyon Phelps

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

— William Lyon Phelps

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

— William Lyon Phelps

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.

— William Lyon Phelps

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

— William Lyon Phelps

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

— William Lyon Phelps

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.

— William Lyon Phelps

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.

— William Lyon Phelps

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

— William Lyon Phelps

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

— William Lyon Phelps