"We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier."
― Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Happiness
More From Walter Savage Landor
- "Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
- "Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
- "Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."
More In Happiness
- "Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."― Henry Van Dyke
- "The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."― Epictetus
- "Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."― Adam Smith