"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." ― Henry Ward Beecher Topic(s): Art Tags: being, happy More From Henry Ward Beecher "The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance." "The dog is the god of frolic." "Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it." More In Art "All art is quite useless."― Oscar Wilde "Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples."― Franklin D. Roosevelt "Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"― David Herbert Lawrence